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 …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

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

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and rightwing criminal activities. We show further that the big … difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

-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 …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

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 …