labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s … the probability of unemployment spells ending with moves into full and part-time employment, self-employment and economic … inactivity. The data show that the median duration of unemployment spells among men, at 5 months, is almost double that for women …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

spirit of Blanchard and Summers (1988), the model can generate multiple equilibria, with a low-quits/high-unemployment … equilibrium coexisting with a high-quits/low-unemployment equilibrium. Under weak conditions, low-unemployment equilibria Pareto … dominate high-unemployment equilibria. Mobility premia improve aggregate welfare but may increase unemployment. …