to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal in an adjacent comparison year as a result of movements in the real …

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …

decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …

feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that … on liquidity are hit disproportionally hard. This may explain why the unemployment rate in the US during the Great …

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 …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents … amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program …