By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

The common view that far-reaching labour market deregulation is the only remedy for high European unemployment is too …

volatility. Our over- all conclusion points out that the employment duality is the key to understand the unemployment volatility …- ported for the UK and the US. Explicitly introducing the employment duality present in the Spanish labor market, we study … unconditional and conditional correlations. Finally, we compute the contribution of the dierent transitions to unemployment rate …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … exp lain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

The common view that far-reaching labour market deregulation is the only remedy for high European unemployment is too …

facilitates an analysis of how wage setting and unemployment is affected by punishment policies, which is ignored in the previous …

both sectors, and (iii) reduces the unemployment rate. The effect of a higher audit rate is less clear. We find that a … ambiguous impact on unemployment and real wages. …

vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor … estimation, show economically significant effects of shocks to the number of vacancies on employment dynamics, while shocks to …