Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity … model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is not automatically among them since the basic flexicurity properties … were also in place during the 1970s and 1980s where high and persistent unemployment was prevalent. Labour market …

insecurity, experiences with wage arrears, and spells of unemployment all increase the attractiveness of work in the public …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

We study empirically how various labor market institutions – (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …

The Danish labour market has undergone a remarkable change during the 1990s with a reduction of the unemployment rate … unemployment insurance system. This paper offers an overview of the developments in the Danish labour market during the 1990s, and … reviews the major policy shifts, as well as possible explanations of the remarkable reduction in unemployment. …