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 …

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 …

Labor courts play an important role in determining the effective level of labor market regulation in Germany, but their … unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …

This paper discusses the reasons for the dismal labor market performance of Germany over the last three decades along … play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …

market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. …

Up to now there was a general conviction that increasing unemployment and inflation have a negative impact on the … government’s popularity. This was true for Germany as well, but it does not seem to hold any longer. This paper first reviews the … the Schröder government. While the results for the former show the known pattern, neither unemployment nor inflation is …

intuitive appeal of the latter feature, we conclude that the neoclassical growth model is a theory of eventual stagnation. …