density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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 …

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 …

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 …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage …

This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and … characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of output to unemployment is driven by idiosyncratic factors in both euro …

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level … decrease the duration in unemployment. Extensive numerical simulations indicate that the relationship between the level of the …

In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases … taxation to tax competition. -- capital taxation ; asymmetric tax competition ; rigid wages ; unemployment ; losses from trade …