dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …The main questions addressed in this paper are: First, how did labour markets in the Visegrad countries react to the …

determine local wages and unemployment; when mobility between regions is obstructed by rent subsidies and controls, unemployment … and wage differentials arise. Because unemployment benefits set a floor beneath the supply price of labor, as these … differentials rise, so too does the national unemployment rate (in declining regions unemployment is the major response, in growing …

London Life and Labour, conducted between 1928 and 1931. I use this data to analyse the relationship between unemployment …Several controversial recent studies seek to explain Britain's high interwar unemployment rate as a consequence of the … generosity of her unemployment insurance system. All of these studies are based on macroeconomic time-series data. In contrast …

The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated … may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … effect on employment unless these policies stimulate labor productivity, the entry of firms, capital utilization or …

labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact … whereas new and old immigrants exhibit perfect substitutability. Our analysis suggests that if the German labour market were …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

as having high taxes, high inflation rates, and a tight labour market, relatively attractive jobs within the MNCs were …. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …

countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical …'s labour market problems. Indeed, given that Italy holds quite a distinct pattern of trade specialization, compared to other … industrialized countries, international integration as reflected in falling import prices may have boosted the demand for labour …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …