methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high-unemployment …

productivity in Algeria is associated with higher unemployment than the sample average, though recent positive terms of trade … unemployment is higher in Algeria than in other countries. The results are robust to various panel econometric methods and …

combination of posted reservation wages, depending on parameters. We also show how wages, profits, and unemployment depend on …

, we simulate the effects of this reform on unemployment, employment, and welfare. We estimate that the CNE will lead to …

restrictions affects the outcome of the matching process and the natural rate of unemployment in Tunisia. The paper concludes that … the removal of firing restrictions is likely to produce a favorable but limited impact on unemployment in Tunisia. …

differentiation and high regional unemployment differentials. The empirical literature has found that centralized wage bargaining … productivity and unemployment differentials. …

We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …

with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long … impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with … flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of financial crises is less pronounced but more persistent in countries …