politicoeconomic equilibrium with little employment and substantial investor protection. Our prediction of a negative cross …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment … as a worker discipline device, considering the different degree of job security offered by the Italian Employment …

1970 – 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture … capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment. As we expected, venture capital investment has different influences … on sectoral-, educational- and occupational-specific unemployment. We suggest, on the basis of the regression results …

Anglo-Saxon countries have been relatively successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in … reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …

structural change, new firms and innovations and therefore possibly also nowadays for employment growth. …

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … should be supplemented by capital market imperfections for explaining differences in employment performances is supported by …

This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment …

effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous …

compare the empirical relevance of search-matching theory to efficiency wage and bargaining theories, where employment is … product demand affect job creation, but we find no evidence that unemployed workers contribute to job creation, as predicted …