interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous …