unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

The negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the job openings rate, known as the Beveridge curve, has … openings, the U.S. unemployment rate has not declined in line with the Beveridge curve. We decompose the recent deviation from …

lose part of their skills during unemployment. We show that an import tariff increase the wage and the employment prospects … through quantity and quality effects and increases unemployment persistently. Replacing the tariff by a wage-cost subsidy … financed by means of lump-sum taxation prevents unemployment from rising after trade has been reformed. However, giving a wage …

We simulate the effect of the introduction of premium differentiation (experience rating) in the Dutch Unemployment …

In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the … development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We … facilitate a balancing of the budget has strong adverse effects on unemployment and real GDP. …