European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed … unemployed because it suggests that increases in employment will require reductions in the real wages of those currently employed …. The first part of this paper shows that increases in employment in Europe are likely to be associated with rising real …

harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects … costly since about 1980, not through overall employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior …

-market recovery from financial crises is characterized by either higher unemployment ("jobless recovery") or a lower real wage …

and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …

changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition … approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers switched to self-employment. They were primarily men who were previously self …-employed or who were in wage-and-salary occupations with characteristics similar to self-employment, e.g., managers and salesmen …

measures concur with changes in employment rates among older workers …

As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …