We extend the `rational partisan model' of inflation and unemployment by introducing inflation and unemployment … dynamics. We investigate the case of Greece, which has had a polarized political system and a problem of persistently high … stability. The greater aversion of `socialists' to unemployment results in an inflation rate which is higher by five percentage …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

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

equilibrium, thereby generating unemployment in the ‘East’. This slows the migration of human capital towards the East, but … quickens the migration of raw labour towards the West. A greater share of economic activity is eventually located in the … western region. Unions in the West will benefit from this, provided human capital has low migration costs relative to raw …

on the incidence of unemployment in different sex-age groups. The German population has aged substantially in recent … be expected to lead to fluctuations in age-specific unemployment rates. In general, this intuition is confirmed by the … estimations presented here. A strong positive relationship between the size of a cohort and its relative unemployment experience …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

in Greece. Using regional public investment data for 10 political periods (1975-2009), combined with electoral data by …

of the restructuring left money on the table from the perspective of Greece, created a large risk for European taxpayers …

in Greece. Using a new database of public expenditure per region for the period 1978-2007, it proposes a model which … public investment in each region. Finally, the impact of different types of public investment in Greece is mediated by …