. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the … of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …

provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … wages of male workers who have previously become unemployed as the result of an establishment closure. To identify the … analysis is based on administrative data that comprise the universe of workers employed in Germany between 1980 and 2001. The …

(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 …

incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective …, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer …

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 …