whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the … Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We conclude that major differences in pass-through exist in our sample …

In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare … examples of high compliance exert no influence; (iv) tax evasion is more frequent in France and the Netherlands; Walloons evade … treatment and from black labor supplementing some unemployment compensation in the Welfare treatment. Subjects have then to …

, with the result that too few hires are made in bad states of the world. Unemployment is involuntary. In an extension to the …

by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …

Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training … considerably improve effectiveness: up to 20% more (less) time spent in (un)employment within a 30 months window. A shallow policy …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …