Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

Switzerland, traditionally a "zero unemployment" economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s … although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … developed venture capital markets should help to alleviate such financial constraints. This view that labor-market institutions …

reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …

reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …

wage, unemployment, and non-employment structures between 1988 and 1998, when both unemployment and non-employment rates … moderation on average. Although there have also been virtually no changes in the unemployment structure, the relative non …

This note tests whether the extraordinary rise in Spanish unemployment in the 1980s can be traced back to rigidities in … "Krugman hypothesis"). I can establish that youth joblessness is key to the Spanish unemployment problem, but sampling … procedures in the data set make it impossible to track the youth unemployment problem across time in a satisfactory way. Even …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …