create disincentives to work, such as high tax wedges and high unemployment benefits, or enforced reductions in working hours …

Blanchard (1994) by adding migration. The impact of remittances on unemployment depends on its effect on productivity growth and … directly and indirectly through its effect on investment. -- Unemployment ; migration ; remittances …

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …

"unemployment volatility puzzle". We let new matches andcontinuing jobs differ by their productivity levels and by their sensitivity …

determinants of this pecking order: information frictions and the quality of host country institutions. Overall, we find that in … institutions. This provides new evidence in favor of some hypotheses but contradicts others put forward in the theoretical …