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 …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …

; Germany ; short-time work ; unemployment ; labor market institutions ; internal flexibility …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

; flexible work arrangement laws ; European unemployment …

global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and … sets of dynamic simulations which account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our … labour productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries …

performance of TEs, including the policy-relevant issue of complementarity of institutions. -- labor markets ; unemployment …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …