pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …

ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

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 …

by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …