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 …

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …

protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and …