unemployment through hysteresis effects that occur through the rise in long-term unemployment. The estimated increase in structural …The global recession is likely to results in higher structural unemployment for some time in many OECD countries. This … paper assesses how the shock to aggregate unemployment as a result of the economic crisis may be transmitted to structural …

the unemployment benefit replacement rate also play an important role in explaining changes in the NAIRU although there is …This paper analyses the determinants of structural unemployment rates in a two-stage approach. First, time … drivers of structural unemployment. Consistent with earlier studies, the level of product market regulation, union density and …

The structural rate of unemployment and associated non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (the NAIRU) are of … applied ...<BR><P>Les concepts de taux de chômage structurel et NAIRU (<I>non accelerating inflation rate of unemployment … representing the NAIRU as currently used by the OECD in its policy analysis and surveillance work. Three distinct classes of NAIRU …

since the late 1990s. Structural unemployment is defined as a time-varying NAIRU derived from the information contained in a …The financial crisis has resulted in a substantial increase in unemployment in the OECD. This paper shows that this … increase has reversed the reduction in structural unemployment which has been estimated to have occurred in most OECD countries …

In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …

, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …

This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the … raise temporarily natives' unemployment, over a period of approximately five to ten years. Anticompetitive product market … protection legislation magnifies its persistence, and a higher average replacement rate of unemployment benefits increases its …