In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …, higher taxes and larger economic burden represented by the minimum wage decrease employment and activity rate. Moreover …

to reduce the currently high unemployment among the low-skilled dramatically. Among the high-skilled, scarcities will …

interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation, union density … intermediated credit and banking concentration is beneficial for employment when the degree of labour market regulation, union …

We offer a unified framework to analyze the determination of employment, employee effort, wages, profit-sharing and … offset the negative dilution effect in equilibrium. Leverage is shown to decrease employment and to have a strategic … for equilibrium unemployment are characterized. …

can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time, i.e. we examines the determinants of employment and …

particular, I summarize work on the employment effects of shop-closing regulation in the retail and other related sectors …. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory … regime might play an important role; I argue that a nonnegligible comp o nent of the recent Dutch employment miracle could be …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …