unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past … (1950-2010). We show that a policy reform in one country also has an impact on labor markets in other countries when capital …

Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This … both its unemployment and its share of fixed-term employment are the highest. We find that fixedterm contracts increase … unemployment, reduce output, and raise productivity. The welfare effects are ambiguous. …

of feed-in-tariffs and renewable portfolio standard policies showed that the former is good when a policy to develop … renewable energy sources with a low level of risk for investors is considered. However, the latter is an appropriate policy when … a market view policy is applied by the government. …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that, contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due to …

directions, policy, organizations, capacity, areas and interventions are provided and extensions that can serve as optimal … directions for future research and policy are suggested. …