This paper starts from the observation that despite their very high levels of unemployment, major European countries … have devoted few resources to reducing it. This suggests that there is little political concern about high unemployment. I …

In this paper we present an investigation of unemployment persistence in Japan, the United States and fourteen European … recent differential unemployment persistence in our sample of countries: first, sluggishness in labour demand, and second … deviations from target. We also examine the short-run and medium-run effects on unemployment of shocks and policies that shift …

We study a number of mechanisms through which an economy can be stuck at a high unemployment equilibrium because a poor … measures that have been undertaken to cure unemployment. The message of the paper is that curing the European unemployment …

This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico …

Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to mid-century Mexico did better on this score than did most countries around …, and to those attributable to domestic forces specific to Mexico. It uses a neo-Ricardian model (with non …

government might be tempted to devalue. In Mexico it would also appear that the costs and benefits of maintaining the regime were …