Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however … indicators are identified as significant determinants of unemployment. Endogeneity due to reverse causality is also considered by …

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous …

This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue within the … 1973 to 2008, we show that oil price increases induce a rise in unemployment in the German labor market. Moreover, for a …

the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …

determined by the overall unemployment rate. It is argued both on analytical and numerical grounds that the second alternative is …

the level of the profit tax. The question of wheather there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …