This paper analyses the determinants and impact of labour market reforms in the European Union over the period of 2000 … domains with macro-structural relevance (employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, wage setting). Reforms tend … improved activity rates and lower unemployment. …

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces … of their disparities. The Spanish economy has one of the highest unemployment rates in the EU and is characterised by … severe regional disparities. We apply the chain reaction theory of unemployment according to which the evolution of …

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 … market variables to unemployment are affected by financial factors. In Belgium, Italy, Australia, Japan and Spain, accounting …

states act as key determinants of this. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical movements …Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market … last 35 years, we decompose unemployment variation into parts accounted for by changes in rates of job loss, job finding …

and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the relative … wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic. We …