unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the … macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual …-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset provides an interesting …

sharp declines in employment rates for unskilled workers. The microeconomic evidence is shown to have important implications … for interpreting trends in wage shares, capital-labor ratios, and aggregate unemployment. …

The Great Recession pushed Japan’s unemployment rate to historic highs, but the increase has been small by … the global financial crisis. Our findings suggest that: (i) employment responsiveness has been historically low but rising … historical patterns once we control for the size of the output shock; and (iii) the comparatively lower employment response vis …

The literature on the relationship between the unemployment rate and wage bargaining fails to separate the offsetting … effects of a reduction in competition associated with centralized bargaining and the increased awareness of unemployment … unemployment rate in countries that have switched to centralized wage-bargaining arrangements, the industry wage is not …

The Macedonian labor market exhibits a high unemployment rate, yet does not demonstrate obvious and large enough …

a tightening labor market, inflation remains subdued. Employment has grown 1¼–1½ percent in 2007, on par with the …