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. …

Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other …

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

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

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 …

How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … actively search for a job. Concerning employment, the second effect dominates so that unemployment benefits raise employment. … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment …

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 …

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 …

reassessment, we estimate employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits. We find that among those who left disability …-reform employment status. 81% of beneficiaries who had some employment in the pre-reform year worked, while only 33% of those without … pre-reform employment did. The gains of the reform in activating beneficiaries were small and strongly driven by pre …

and matching unemployment. We show that trend growth in itself does not generate a trade-off for the monetary authority …