Recent empirical work has shown that there exists a negative relation between wages and unemployment estimated across …. In setting wages, firms perceive their influence on the wage-unemployment trade-off, thus taking the employment decisions … labour, workers receive higher wages and face lower unemployment. …

process of transition of the state-owned enterprise sector. A set of theoretical tools is assembled which permits the analysis …

evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from … unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the …

private sector. The transition is shown to be costly in that it entails unemployment and a deterioration of the fiscal balance …. The interaction of fiscal constraints with the transition process is examined. It is shown that fiscal constraints may … induce the government to maintain the state sector, slowing the speed of transition, and could jeopardize the eventual …

The unemployment dynamics in the Mezzogiorno of Italy seem to corroborate the New Economic Geography predictions …, whereby, under some specific hypotheses, a stronger economic integration can amplify the regional polarisation of unemployment … carries out a comparative analysis of unemployment rates of the different ‘Mezzogiornos of Europe’. Finally, some policy …