whether policy effects vary across countries depending on the level of economic development and whether institutions have an … influence on economic outcomes. The paper lists of policies and institutions that could be used to quantify the effect of …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

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 studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …

Immigration is often blamed for increasing unemployment among local workers. However, standard models, such as the … labor market without affecting local unemployment. This paper presents a more general model of migration that allows for the … possibility that not only the wages but also the unemployment rate of local workers may be affected by the arrival of newcomers …

We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration … more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both fiscal spending multipliers and macroeconomic volatility. This is … emanate from employment protection, followed by union density. While some labor market institutions mitigate the …

aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by age, skill and gender. The generosity of unemployment benefits, and …