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

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … developed venture capital markets should help to alleviate such financial constraints. This view that labor-market institutions …

play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …

this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then discuss the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process … that has brought unemployment back to normal levels. We argue that these institutions cannot be blamed for the increase in … unemployment, but that more flexible institutions could have lead to a more rapid decline in unemployment. …

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 …

interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation, union density …-based finance are crucially tied to the labour market context. -- unemployment ; institutional complementarities and …

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … would facilitate the structural transformation and reduce the long-term unemployment rate. Linking increases in unemployment …

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 … protection ; labour market institutions ; unemployment ; international comparison …

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 …