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 …

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 …

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …

unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …

The Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990’s from three to eighteen percent in four years. Unemployment has then … this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then discuss the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process … that has brought unemployment back to ‘normal’ levels. We argue that these institutions cannot be blamed for the increase …

rates are consistent with weakly increasing returns in matching. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited … boost employment both in the short run and the long run. Calibrating the model and comparing the results with recent …