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 …

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 …

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 …

simulation results for eastern Germany, a forerunner in the demographic process, show that the population decline will not help … to reduce the currently high unemployment among the low-skilled dramatically. Among the high-skilled, scarcities will …

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. …