of taxes. Controlling for demand-side and supply-side determinants of unemployment, we show that the PTB plays a … significant role in explaining unemployment in the continental European countries, but not in the Nordic nor the Anglo-Saxon ones …. We also show that there is no relationship between the incidence of the PTB and unemployment persistence, even though …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller … HILDA survey data to investigate the inter-related dynamics of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in …

. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data on institutions, which cover employment protection legislation (EPL …), the tax wedge, the unemployment benefit level, unemployment benefit duration and union density, are assembled at the IZA …