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 …

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 …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

and turns of unemployment rates in Europe and elsewhere …This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and …

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are …