affect union formation. Local male unemployment, on the contrary, is a positive determinant of single motherhood and a …

We analyze the relationship between the family and the Welfare State when intra-family transfers are governed by risk …-sharing considerations (i.e. not by altruism). For the benchmarl case, the classic neutrality result is obtained: more generous unemployment … benefits, provided by the State, crowd out family risk-sharing arrangements one-for-one. The model is extended to capture the …

Unemployment in the 1930s was low in France by international standards, nevertheless there was a virulent drive to … expel immigrant workers as a means of limiting domestic unemployment. This involved not only the repatriation of the foreign …

This paper contributes to the debate on the causes of unemployment in interwar Germany. It applies the Layard …, combined with nominal inertia in the labour market, were important in explaining unemployment. In addition real wage pressures … due to the political processes of wage determination were a major influence on unemployment. Negative demand shocks appear …

British regions display persistent differences in both earnings and unemployment rates. A number of studies have found … that in general, regions that have high unemployment tend to have low wages. This runs contrary to a compensating … differentials argument that high wages should compensate for high unemployment. However, levels of labour mobility in Britain, and …