1996-2003. During these years unemployment in Poland almost doubled. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the …

in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment,compared to a framework in which wages …

The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 …

regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …

unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget …

use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects ofdifferent labor market institutions on macroeconomic …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and outputvolatility. The eurozone … labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they donot seem to have much of an effect on inflation …

lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using:(i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures … institutions do notappear to condition the effect of openness.... …