future developments of the Dutch economy, and surveys the political-economic debate in the Netherlands. The focus is on the … unemployment problem, still unsolved and therefore important for policy analysis. Several constraints for unemployment policy …

We develop a general equilibrium analysis of the impact of active labour market policy on unemployment, wages and the … employed have little exposure to unemployment and if the demand for unskilled labour is inelastic, there may be political … support for policies which actually raise the equilibrium level of total unemployment. …

specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …

Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual …

development of the Dutch economy pinpointed and the political-economic debate in the Netherlands surveyed. Ten rules for sound …

the recession and peaked at more than 1.5 million. Without the extensive use of short-time work, unemployment would have …

separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and … we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …

We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU …