taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

informal firm and self-employment, but mixed evidence of effects on unemployment. Hours worked decreased in response to trade …

not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …

unemployment over the last three decades. We find that while macroeconomic and demographic shocks and changing labor market … important factor explaining the shift in US relative unemployment. Our finding of the central importance of these interactions … relative unemployment has fallen in recent years in part because its more flexible labor market institutions allow shocks to …