poor re-employment outcomes …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …, higher taxes and larger economic burden represented by the minimum wage decrease employment and activity rate. Moreover …

This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …

wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

-generations framework we show that in an environment characterized by unemployment, a reform towards a private pension system in the steady … state may result in lower levels of employment and capital stock. In this case even if the privatization increases the … employment then a Paretoimproving pension privatization scheme can be constructed. …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. …