immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … alongside trade on unemployment taking into account the substitutability of worker and goods flows. We use data from 24 OECD … persistence of unemployment. We find a significant negative effect of immigration on unemployment on average. …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

-up process of the Argentine economy nor could it be expected to be a big loser. So, the huge amount of unemployment experienced … unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

measure construction and technology busts) have little effect on the natural rate of unemployment or on long run productivity … of unemployment and can count for a 0.5% rise in cyclical unemployment from 2007 through the end of 2009 and 0.3% through …

This paper presents a synoptic interpretation of structural unemployment in Europe. The paper consists of three parts …. Part 1 summarises some major stilysed facts of the record and the state of unemployment in Europe. In part 2, these facts … are taken as the basis for a theoretical interpretation of the genesis and persistence of European unemployment. Part 3 …