. 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 …

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

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …

The standard search model of unemployment predicts, under realistic assumptions about household preferences, that … disembodied technological progress leads to higher steady-state unemployment. This prediction is at odds with the 1970s experience … of slow productivity growth and high unemployment in industrial countries. We show that introducing nominal price …

productivity growth and high unemplyoment. Subsequent research has shown that the standard model of unemployment actually gives …, Tesfaselassie and Wolters examine the effect of growth on unemployment in the presence of nominal price rigidity. The authors … demonstrate that the effect of growth on unemployment may be positive or negative. Faster growth leads to lower unemployment if …

law with a focus on the dynamic part of the relationship. We find that the negative relationship between unemployment and … misspecification of the short run unemployment-output relationship. A mixed lag structure indirectly controls for missing explanatory …

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 …

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. …