The paper elaborates on the employment intensity of growth. Previous evidence regarding this question is surveyed …. Empirical results concerning Europe and selected other industrial countries reveal that the cyclical link between unemployment … that the employment intensity of growth is influenced by the country's wage setting process, the share of the service …

vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real …

falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …

wages after nine months of unemployment. Thus, the chance that long-term unemployed persons will receive a wage offer that …This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 …, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation …

quickly bring down unemployment and increase GDP significantly. Even former labor market insidersʺ would gain as net wages … increase due to falling unemployment insurance contributions. …

these two features combined generate an equilibrium comovement between matches on the one hand and unemployment and …

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the … fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply low growth and high unemployment. An empirical index is constructed. In the period …

labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …. -- Sticky wages ; staggered Nash bargaining ; trend inflation ; unemployment ; search and matching …

estimate a model of unemployment adjustment, which allows for the influence both of the global factor and of labour market …OECD unemployment rates show long swings which dominate shorter business cycle components and these long swings show a … unemployment by the first principal component. This factor has a natural interpretation as a measure of global expected returns …

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 …