This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …

wage on the probability of making a transition into and out of unemployment. We use micro-level data from the Greek Labour … an important role in making a transition into or out of unemployment. Changes in the real minimum wage are estimated to …During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that …

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/2019, the incidence of long …-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for >1 year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID …-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term unemployment. This paper explores the factors associated with long …