. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part … markets. Less robust evidence suggests the presence of unemployment traps for some potential part-time workers. Cross …

We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment … unemployment persistence by its adverse impact on growth, and may even destabilize the adjustment path. If this is the case, a … future fiscal consolidation is needed which further raises unemployment. These results are consistent with empirical evidence …

unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs … increase both youth and old age unemployment. This happens because unions react strategically, and respond to higher firing … increase their employment prospects. However, despite this cut youth unemployment still increases with firing costs. In the …

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 …

average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

as (i) unemployment rates, (ii) GDP per capita as a measure of welfare, (iii) average weekly work hours, and (iv) income … prosperity and income, high risk of unemployment, and working conditions play an important role in determining working hours …