Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

To the layperson, the upward trend in European unemployment is related to the slowdown in economic growth. We argue … that the layperson’s view is correct. The increase in European unemployment and the slowdown in economic growth are related …, and thus creates unemployment. Second, as firms substitute capital for labour, the marginal product of capital falls; over …

Using data from the German socio-economic panel this paper analyses the labour market entrance of former apprentices … apprentices in their training firms is fairly low. Second, the transition to employment involves unemployment periods for many …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

We study the influence of social networks on labour market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties … negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence … depends on the persistence of the macroeconomic fluctuations to which the labour market is exposed, and on employees …’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically, costs of firing and hiring reduce employment and stimulate unemployment when …

Unemployment in Europe is a worrying phenomenon not so much because it hits 18 million people, but because it almost … exclusively affects particular population segments. Italy represents a textbook case of a European country where labour market … unemployment rate. Thus, understanding the Italian unemployment and finding effective solutions for it, is useful to understand and …