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

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between … explanatory power of macroeconomic models explaining unemployment. The approach permits to tackle model specification problems …

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

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 …

-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

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 …

In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the …, unemployment rises. More generally, we show that skill-biased technological change leads to increasing unemployment of the … inequality and unemployment under different social benefits regimes: Analyzing the social legislation in 14 countries, we find …