Labour Market Processes and Structural Change: Allocation Dynamics and Unemployment in the US, Swedish and West German Labour Markets

Research question/goal: 

Who becomes unemployed, for how long and to which consequences? In addressing these issues, the project aims at a comparative analysis of unemployment experiences in three major Western economies. Unemployment is addressed in a dynamic framework and analyzed from a general perspective on mobility processes in labour markets. Cross-country similarities and differences are to be explained mainly from similarities and national peculiarites of labour market dynamics and labour market trends.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
MZES
Duration: 
1999 to 2001
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
Secondary analysis of longitudinal survey data
Geographic Space: 
United States, Sweden and West Germany

Publications

Books

Gangl, Markus (2003): Unemployment dynamics in the United States and West Germany: economic restructuring, institutions and labour market processes. Heidelberg: Physica. more

Journal Articles

Gangl, Markus (2003): Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen und die Struktur von Matching-Prozessen im Arbeitsmarkt: ein deutsch-amerikanischer Vergleich. Wirtschaft und Statistik, issue 2, pp. 140-146. more
Gangl, Markus (2002): Changing labour markets and early career outcomes: labour market entry in Europe over the past decade. Work, employment and society, 16, issue 1, pp. 67-90. more
Gangl, Markus (2001): European Patterns of Labour Market Entry: A Dichotomy of Occupationalized versus Non-occupationalized Systems?. European Societies, 3, issue 4, pp. 471-494. more

Book Chapters

Gangl, Markus (2000): European Perspectives on Labour Market Entry: A Matter of Occupationalised versus Flexible Arrangements in Labour Markets?. Pp. 417-452 in: Torild Hammer (Ed.) Transitions and Mobility in the Youth Labour Market. Proceedings of the 1999 Workshop of the European Network on Transitions in Youth. Oslo: NOVA. more

Other Publications

Gangl, Markus, and Hildegard Brauns (1999): The Educational Stratification of Labour Market Entry: An Analysis of Structure and Trends across the European Union. Mannheim, Maastricht, Marseille [Walter Müller e.al. (ed.), A Comparative Analysis of Transitions from Education to Work in Europe Based on the European Community Labour Force Survey, pp 151-192. Report to the European Commission] more
Gangl, Markus (1999): European Perspectives on Labour Market Entry: A Matter of Occupationalised versus Flexible Arrangements in Labour Markets?. Mannheim, Maastricht, Marseille [Walter Müller e.al. (ed.), A Comparative Analysis of Transitions from Education to Work in Europe Based on the European Community Labour Force Survey, pp 115-150. Report to the European Commission] more