interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

institutions; on the basis of which, and recent theoretical developments, specific support is adduced for the German, contemporary …

indicator -- and our macro performance outcome is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … relations ; labor market institutions ; unemployment … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … relationship the effect of labour market institutions as well as age and gender effects. Our empirical analysis is based on 20 OECD … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with …