covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force … years. However, the impact of this development on unemployment is rather limited. …

. Empirical results concerning Europe and selected other industrial countries reveal that the cyclical link between unemployment …

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as …, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are estimated for the pooled crosssection of 1991 and 1995, taking into … account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second step, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

This paper investigates unemployment and labour market rigidities in OECD countries in 1983?1994. The central issue is … the taxation-unemployment relationship and whether this relationship is exogenous or simultaneously determined. Hausman … specification tests indicate that the impact of taxation on short-term unemployment is positive and exogenous whereas the …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. … einer geringen Qualifikation behindert und zum Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit beigetragen. …

fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply low growth and high unemployment. An empirical index is constructed. In the period …

The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage policy and proposes a new … approach to measure productivity growth when unemployment increases. It studies the position of trade unions and the …Der Beitrag analysiert, warum die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland so hoch ist. Er diskutiert die Rolle der Lohnpolitik …