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European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed …
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European unemployment has been steadily increasing for the last 15 years and is …equilibrium unemployment. We then confront the theory to both the detailed facts of …insiders and firms, shocks which affect actual unemployment tend also to affect …
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This paper studies the role of unemployment in sterling's interwar experience. According to most narrative accounts …, the proximate cause of the 1931 sterling crisis was a high and rising unemployment rate that placed pressure on British … currency crises, highlights the conflict between the objective of low unemployment and defense of the currency and show that it …
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The recent European experience of high persistent unemployment has led to the development of theories of unemployment … hysteresis embodying the idea that the equilibrium unemployment rate depends on the history of the actual unemployment rate. This …
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the effects of unemployment insurance on measured and actual employment, unemployment and non-participation. The data are … effect of UI on unemployment duration and temporary layoffs. The results are rather inconclusive, but suggest the importance …
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This paper challenges conventional views of unemployment. Its results suggest that failure to examine closely labor … force transitions has led to a misleading picture of unemployment and the way the labor market functions in general. There … unemployment. We find that the vast majority of those newly employed come not from unemployment but from outside the labor force …
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unemployment insurance (UI) on transitions from unemployment to employment and out of the labor force. Our results suggest that VI … lengthens unemployment spells by reducing both transition rates, and show that correcting for measurement error strengthens the …
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We propose an explanation for the wide variation in rates of taxation across developed economies, based on differences in labor market institutions. In "corporatist" economies, which feature centralized labor markets, taxes on labor input will be less distortionary than when labor supply is...
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. Conventional measures sy understate the duration of unemployment by as much as eighty percent and overstate the extent of movement …
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