, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier …

social insurance system. Supplementary information on establishments and on unemployment periods in which a claimant received …

2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …

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 …

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 …This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces …

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 …

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