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

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.... …

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a … plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished … search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …

This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on unemployment in OECD countries over the past decades … institutions are found to be particularly robust, notably between unemployment benefits and public spending on active labour market …. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross …