This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data …-setting institutions. …

This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …

We study how unemployment affects the over-indebtedness of households using the new European Household Finance and … household indebtedness in its most severe form. We also examine the role that each country's legal and economic institutions … to country specific results, the role of unemployment varies widely across countries. In Spain, France or Portugal, for …