for equilibrium unemployment in an economy with product and labour market imperfections. We show that intensified product … market competition will reduce equilibrium unemployment, whereas the effect of increased capital intensity is more complex …. Higher capital intensity will decrease the equilibrium unemployment when the elasticity of substitution between capital and …

OECD. We first model the wage determination process and show that unemployment, the labour share, and the wage differential … is ambiguous. Stronger unions and/or a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce inequality through reduced wage … differentials, a higher labour share, and also higher unemployment. We then use a panel of OECD countries for the period 1970-96 to …

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …

envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …