explanatory variables, and we link this time effect to a secular increase in the labor-force participation of women, particularly …

family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …

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 …

behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …

The more education, the less unemployment of women; this relationship is as strong as it is in the male labor force … duration of unemployment are negligible among women, though they are observable, if small, among men. Recent growth in women … unemployment. However, the relation between education and turnover is mediated largely by educational differences in on …

Two key facts about European unemployment must be explained: the rise in unemployment since the 1960s, and the … heterogeneity of individual country experiences. While adverse shocks can potentially explain much of the rise in unemployment … institutions pre-date the rise in unemployment. Based on a panel of institutions and shocks for 20 OECD nations since 1960, we find …

, permanent unemployment subsidies, firing costs, etc. Such policies create incentives to develop and adopt labor saving capital …