unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is steep enough to generate increasing returns to education. This may lead … unskilled are more exposed to unemployment relative to the skilled, as compared with the latter. The two equilibria cannot be …

distribution of firm characteristics, sorting patterns between firms and workers, and unemployment rates that can help explaining …

The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in … international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges …

whether these fears are justified for Austria and Germany - two countries neighbouring Eastern enlargement. We find that … and Germany. Low cost jobs of affiliates in Eastern Europe help Austrian and German firms to stay competitive in an … increasingly competitive environment. We also find, however, that multinational firms in Austria and Germany are outsourcing the …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …

In this paper, we incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping generations model … unemployment insurance levels in a politico-economic equilibrium. The interaction between the political decision about the level of … the unemployment insurance and the optimal search behavior of the unemployed gives rise to a self-reinforcing mechanism …