since the mid-1990s, French unemployment and employment rates show stability or improvement as well as strong convergence to … U.S. levels. Unemployment-to-population rates for US and French 15-24 year olds have closely tracked one another since …

flexibility, labor market institutions, the trade-off between unemployment and inequality (the so-called unified theory), social … institutions and unemployment, in which is is assumed that Japan has comparatively high wage flexibility. …This paper examines the relationship between unemployment and labor market flexibility. The latter is considered in the …

been established between the recent rise in unemployment and the presence of strong wage-setting institutions and social …Measured by changes in real wages, earnings inequality and unemployment, the economic position of lower skilled workers … skilled workers in the "flexible" labor market of the United States and high and rising unemployment in "rigid" European labor …

unemployment across OECD countries, and while welfare state institutions aimed at employment, unemployment, and wage protection … inequality and unemployment, blames low skills for high earnings inequality in the U.S. and U.K., and attributes high European … unemployment to institutional constraints. This paper finds little evidence of a tradeoff between earnings inequality and …

In the midst of massive job destruction and sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment insurance … benefits reduce work incentives, UI extensions would exacerbate the long-term unemployment problem. This paper reviews the …

In New Classical and New Keynesian thinking, the cross-country pattern of unemployment reflects prevailing equilibrium … rates, which in turn are mainly explained by the protective labor market institutions that produce market rigidities. While … employment (and unemployment). …

This paper tests whether a wage curve—a negative relationship between unemployment and pay—existed in Santiago, Chile … reforms, women’s pay falls three times more than men’s when unemployment doubles. Also, non-university educated and public … sector workers have suffered greater pay decreases from unemployment. Workers in the informal sector do not experience a drop …