This paper assesses some of the main strands of the theoretical literature on unemployment and employment and shows that their interesting conclusions may not be transferable to low-income countries whose endowment and production structures are profoundly different from that of high-income...

Die langfristige Arbeitsmarktentwicklung der meisten westeuropäischen Staaten ist durch einen seit den 1970er Jahren andauernden Trend zu wachsenden Arbeitslosenquoten gekennzeichnet. Im Hinblick auf die theoretische Erklärung dauerhaft nicht geräumter Arbeitsmärkte kommt der...

This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...

Europe's notoriously high level of unemployment is one of the big puzzles of empirical macroeconomics. In recent years, the unemployment rate has fallen in The Netherlands, but the overall level in OECD Europe remains high. An investigation into why Dutch economic policy has been relatively...