minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

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 …

We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without … reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and … unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases net wages and - for certain benefit-systems - unemployment benefits as well …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We … analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …

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. …

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … would facilitate the structural transformation and reduce the long-term unemployment rate. Linking increases in unemployment …