the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to … that the gender wage gap decreased among newly hired workers. Our estimates of the effect of the law on employment growth …

in unearned income, we exploit a policy reform that lowered survivor pensions in Austria. Men widowed after the survivor … employment history of both groups for 150 months and estimate the reform’s effect on labor supply using a regression ….4 percentage point higher employment rate for survivors in the low pension regime in the long run. The estimated effect corresponds …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

change that took place in Austria in 2000. In September 2000, an insurance fund that refunded firms for the costs of their …