A Beveridge curve decomposition for Austria: What drives the unemployment rate?

Michael Christl

No 17, Working Papers from Agenda Austria

Abstract: The Austrian Beveridge curve shifted in 2014, leading to ongoing academic discussions about the reasons behind this shift. While some have argued that the shift was caused by a supply shock due to labour market liberalization, others have stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new decomposition method, combined with detailed labour market flow data, we are the first to disentangle supply-side, demand-side and matching factors, which could potentially cause a shift in the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in Austria after 2011 can indeed be attributed to a supply-side shock. But, contrary to other research, our analysis shows that the shift in the Beveridge curve after 2014 was mainly caused by a decrease in matching efficiency, indicating a rising mismatch problem in the Austrian labour market.

Keywords: Beveridge curve; crisis; mismatch; unemployment; structural unemployment; vacancies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 J62 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mac
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