European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed …

harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …

-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 …

from Colombia for cheaper robot-made U.S. products. We use employer-employee matched data from the Colombian social …

concern about the future of jobs and wages. We analyze the effect of the increase in industrial robot usage between 1990 and … correlated with these other variables). According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labor market …

. In this paper, we examine the impact of labor market conditions, represented by either male civilian unemployment or … civilian unemployment rates, especially the rate for those twenty-five years old and over, are strongly and positively …