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 …

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … smaller training costs, so that the welfare implications of each type of economy are a priori ambiguous: no model dominates …

This paper presents a theory and an empirical investigation on cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents. The theory … fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 … market variables to unemployment are affected by financial factors. In Belgium, Italy, Australia, Japan and Spain, accounting …