(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner’s model, monetary … national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade … unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses …

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 …

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

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 …

wages of male workers who have previously become unemployed as the result of an establishment closure. To identify the …-employment probability by 7.5 percentage points. In contrast, there is no evidence of a statistically significant effect on wages. …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …