This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi …-equation macro labor model including labor demand, labor supply, wage-setting and capital accumulation equations. Financialization … appears as a key determinant of capital accumulation which, in turn, is the transmission channel towards its unemployment …

' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged … permanent shocks (especially the rise in working-age population and the decline in capital formation), whereas the unemployment …This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which …

reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

This paper provides a detailed analysis on the incidence of the tax structure on the labor market. To do so it goes …. Controlling for demand-side and supply-side determinants of unemployment, we show that the PTB plays a significant role in … explaining unemployment in the continental European countries, but not in the Nordic nor the Anglo- Saxon ones. We also show that …

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market policies (ALMP). In our … empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-1999. We find that labor market training is … the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs …