In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …

technology growth and institutional variables affect equilibrium wage inequality, income shares and unemployment. Next, it … explain a significant part of the differential rise in unemployment and capital share and some of the differential dynamics in …

The purpose of this paper is to establish some stylized facts on gross labor market flows - using mostly new data from … France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States - which any theory of unemployment ought to explain. The … regularities on gross labor market flows that we isolate are inconsistent with a large class of theories of labor markets and …

Payroll taxes represent a major distortionary influence of governments on labor markets. This paper examines the role … of payroll taxation and the social safety net for cyclical fluctuations in a nonmonetary economy with labor market … frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance …