This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of UK unemployment. However, instead of using traditional … suggest that the UK unemployment may be explained in terms of lagged values of the real oil prices and the real interest rate …, with the order of integration of unemployment ranging between 0.50 and 1. Thus, unemployment shows the characteristics of …

In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM …, productivity and unemployment which is interpreted as a wage setting relation. From a Subset VECM we identify meaningful structural … shocks and assess their importance for unemployment by impulse response analysis and forecast error variance decompositions …

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

In this study we collect information on what economists would suggest for reducing German unemployment. This was done …