labor market. Technology shocks alone replicate remarkably well the volatility in vacancies, unemployment and finding … and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each …

This paper uses a sample of 116 recession episodes in developed and emerging market economies to compare the labor …-market recovery during financial crises with that of other recession episodes. It documents two new stylized facts. First, labor …-market recovery from financial crises is characterized by either higher unemployment ("jobless recovery") or a lower real wage …

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe … cases and wrong in others. Protectionist labor-market policies such as employee protection laws seem to have become more … not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed … reductions in taxes sufficiently large to offset any effects of diminishing returns to labor. The second part of the paper …

We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using … US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and by 6% by raising capital income taxes. For the EU-14 we … obtain 8% and 1%. Dynamic scoring for the EU-14 shows that 54% of a labor tax cut and 79% of a capital tax cut are self …