in unemployment and vacancies but also wages, is the drop in consumption for the unemployed. In addition, explaining the …

The common view that far-reaching labour market deregulation is the only remedy for high European unemployment is too …

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a … plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980's. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished … search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …

unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …

, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …