This study poses the question about whether labour market institutions can explain unemployment rates in the ten new … European Union member states. In five out of the ten new member states, unemployment rates lie above the average in the 15 … institutions in the acceding countries are less rigid than in the EU-15. Moreover, labour market institutions explain only a minor …

The Brief investigates the role of policy uncertainty in explaining the persistently high unemployment rate in the euro … area after the Great Recession and the different impact of uncertainty on flows into and out of unemployment. …