reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …

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 employment protection … market ; unemployment ; European Union ; labour market institutions …

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …

We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960 …-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host … unemployment; an increase equal to one percent of GDP reduces un-employment by 0.2 percentage point in the same year. The effect is …

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

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary … national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade … unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses …

We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour … problem of persistent unemployment. …