This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

Arbeitsmarkt wird sich weiter eintrüben, doch bleibt der Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit vergleichsweise moderat. Bis zum Ende des …Die Konjunktur in Deutschland hat sich stabilisiert. Die Produktion im zweiten Quartal 2009 verlief überraschend … Jahres 2010 wird die Arbeitslosigkeit auf 4,2 Mill. Personen steigen. …

The paper empirically examines three possible reasons for the high and rising unemployment of low-skilled employees in …

-side policies must have different aims, that a limited number of supply-side policies are to be devoted to fighting unemployment … prevailing orthodoxy also claims that the choice of policy instruments for combating unemployment is a political decision, in … a prompt reduction of unemployment. We are confident that if the advice is given proper attention by governments and …