Labor market regulations have often been blamed for high and persistent unemployment in Europe, but evidence on their …

risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …

for services sectors. It reflects national inflation and productivity growth, while labour market tightness is negligible …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

of the unemployment experience are taken into account: i) displacement risk, measured by the probability of moving from … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary …

unemployment. The traditional search model predicts that more risk-averse individuals have lower reservation wages and thus are … less likely to be observed in unemployment. Our findings, however, do not support this prediction: on the contrary our data …

Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North … unemployment rate between two to five times higher than the North. GDP per capita is also twice in the North than in the South … equilibrium matching model, explain the high unemployment rate in the South and, perhaps more interestingly, the low unemployment …