In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …

Unemployment in the United Kingdom has fallen from high European-style levels to US levels. I argue that the key … monetary policy as an institutional change that reduced inflationary pressures in the face of falling unemployment. The decline …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

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

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 …

, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and intrasectoral … economy-wide unemployment rate are the elasticity of substitution between inputs and the elasticity of demand for … cost of offshoring affects jobs and unemployment. We also show that the implications of a reduction in the cost of trading …

labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …