economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less …

temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU countries with … different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these …

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed … reductions in taxes sufficiently large to offset any effects of diminishing returns to labor. The second part of the paper …

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe … cases and wrong in others. Protectionist labor-market policies such as employee protection laws seem to have become more … harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …

This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market …