"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …

heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …

1996-2003. During these years unemployment in Poland almost doubled. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the …

heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …

led to the emergence of a private sector and open unemployment. The Belarusian labor market is characterized by low … official unemployment, combined with a low share of the private sector in the aggregate employment. However, the cumulative …, and the youth unemployment remains high. The mismatch in skills between the unemployed and the vacancies and the …

The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …