According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid … capital accumulation as a macroeconomic shock. In the empirical analysis, medium-term unemployment is explained by capital …

unemployment. We use this framework to study the employment effects of transforming a traditional welfare state, as is currently in …

To tackle mass unemployment and increase participation rates, the German government over recent years has mainly … usually ignore involuntary unemployment. This leads to biased estimates of labour supply elasticities and erroneous … unemployment. In this analysis we evaluate the employment effects of the Mini-Job reform by controlling for involuntary …

or analytical framework integrates the Keynesian multiplier into Leontief´s traditional model. Empirically, we apply our …

According to a widespread view, Germany's unemployment crisis is caused by rigid labour markets, low profitability and … Germany's unemployment rate since 1989, first because no distinction is drawn between the situation in the Eastern part of … negotiations. The unification shock to the East added at least 2.5 percentage points to Germany's overall unemployment rate, as …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right … parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses stark differences in unemployment levels … variables estimates suggest strong and significant effects of parental unemployment on right-wing extremism. Various panel …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …