This paper provides a critical view of the cross country literature on the impact of labour market institutions and … policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of … unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are neither strongly correlated individually with unemployment nor …

the employment performances of those countries. Moreoever, these institutions act asymmetrically along the business cycle …

s as unemployment and lack of opportunity in the formal sector deterred candidates from in-migrating. The Nairobi labour … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …

characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …

detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …

impact of labour market institutions from 1960 to 1994. The main contribution of the paper is to show that labour market …. These results are consistent with the findings of a companion paper (Nickell et al., 2001) where the effects of institutions … on unemployment are examined. The model controls for macroeconomic shocks, and include the possibility of interactions …

This paper examines an open economy model in which equilibrium unemployment depends on capacity in the traded …-goods sector. The model is estimated using U.K. quarterly data and compared with alternative concepts of equilibrium unemployment … utilisation and the degree of volatility of the real exchange rate interact to generate changes in equilibrium unemployment. This …

equalization allows the divergent wage experience as well as unemployment experience of Europe and America to be explained. Europe … reduces European unemployment (which increased under factor price equalization). …