with the 1980s recession it is concluded that there is a high cross-country correlation of the unemployment rates over the …. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates … impact. To analyze how economic growth and labor market institutions have affected unemployment two types of models are …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance - the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) - affect the duration of unemployment.In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

consequence of this distortion is the coming about of wait unemployment, i.e., unemployed queuing for high-paid jobs. Employment …

Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …

centralization of wage bargaining and of the interaction between those institutional variables, on real wages, unemployment and … decrease in the number of unions) triggers two opposite effects on real wages, unemployment and inflation. It reduces the … competition effect" raises real wages, unemployment and in°ation. But the decrease in the number of unions also strengthens the …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …

wage tax such that the marginal tax wedge remains unaffected|increases employment, reduces the equilibrium unemployment … of replacing employment taxes by payroll taxes increases employment and reduces the equilibrium unemployment rate, while …

greater the productivity gap from the leader country, but differences in unemployment benefit systems can lead to relative … social welfare benefits generate high unemployment and reduce the amount of labour employed for R&D purposes. Furthermore, it …