Immigration is often blamed for increasing unemployment among local workers. However, standard models, such as the … labor market without affecting local unemployment. This paper presents a more general model of migration that allows for the … possibility that not only the wages but also the unemployment rate of local workers may be affected by the arrival of newcomers …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

institutions pre-date the rise in unemployment. Based on a panel of institutions and shocks for 20 OECD nations since 1960, we find … same size shock has differential effects on unemployment when labor market institutions differ. We interpret this as …Two key facts about European unemployment must be explained: the rise in unemployment since the 1960s, and the …

, permanent unemployment subsidies, firing costs, etc. Such policies create incentives to develop and adopt labor saving capital …

Colombia's unemployment rate rose to 20% during the late 1990s from less than 8% in 1994. This paper argues that this …