The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of … unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which … classification is used as a way to deal with such a complex, multiple causal phenomenon like unemployment. The method is based on …

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR … with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes … shocks play adominant role in explaining unemployment also in the medium-run. Moreoverreal wages have low sensitivity to …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …