have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher production and lower unemployment. This … explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower … unemployment by lessening the reservation wage and expanding the non-tradable sector. The model replicates the developments of the …

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …

discrimination. This reading is supported by further data showing that the ex-inmates, on average, make increased effort to find …

-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in … toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men …

. These unemployment gaps cannot be explained by occupational sorting or other observable characteristics. …

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …

most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination … Directive and with the end of the 'Roma Decade' (2005-15) in sight, people from the Roma minority have unemployment rates far … attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …

high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …

The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their …-specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of … the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run …