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

construction sector triggered by fast rising property prices hindered France to meet world export demand vis-à-vis its products …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …

Unemployment Benefits II, do not benefit from a minimum wage at all. Comparing the effects of a minimum wage with different types …

various 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 …

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect …