structural change, new firms and innovations and therefore possibly also nowadays for employment growth. …

This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and … unemployment benefits (UB) counter-reforms. The effects of counter-reforms depend on the prevailing economic conditions and are not …

unemployment rate fell from the highest to the lowest in the EU. Over the same period a record number of jobs was created and all … the indicators suggest that full employment was achieved. The primary reason for this employment miracle was the output … spending from income support to active labour market policies, played a positive role. The fact that unemployment has risen …

The concept of the employment threshold plays an important role in the public discussion of unemployment. The … employment threshol d is defined as that growth rate of output which is necessary to keep employment constant despite the … changes of output and unemploy ment. Many contributions to this debate give the impression that the employment threshold is …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …

I construct and analyze a growth model in which technical change can increase unemployment. I first analyze the forces … that deliver a constant steady state unemployment rate in this setting. Labor-saving technical change increases … unemployment, which lowers wages and creates incentives for future investment in labor-using technologies. In the long run, this …