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

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 …

The Danish labour market has undergone a remarkable change during the 1990s with a reduction of the unemployment rate … unemployment insurance system. This paper offers an overview of the developments in the Danish labour market during the 1990s, and … reviews the major policy shifts, as well as possible explanations of the remarkable reduction in unemployment. …

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 …

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

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

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

The Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990 s from three to eighteen percent in four years. Unemployment has then … 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 …