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 …

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … US labor market as being strong and widespread, and provide evidence of an important skill gap between black and white …

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 …

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

reduced unemployment most in the European countries with low or average levels of labour costs …