We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables to unemployment are affected by...

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panelVectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables tounemployment are affected by financial...