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 …

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment …. The empirical results are basically consistent with an insider view of labor market institutions. Labor market … institutions tend to protect (older) employees but might harm (young) entrants. Remarkable is especially the significant and very …

The negative and stable relationship between an economy’s aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well …-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and … economy groups. First, unemployment is more than twice as sensitive to aggregate demand in advanced as in emerging market and …

suggests that increased inactivity among older workers, the so called She-cession (particularly in the US) and shifting worker …

This paper combines both micro and macro approaches to identify the drivers of (un)employment and inactivity in … unemployment. High unemployment of young and low-skilled workers reflects substantial unemployment traps, while disincentives for … (respectively seniors). Further reduction of structural unemployment requires better integration of vulnerable groups into the labor …