-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate … analysis of optimal UI should take a more comprehensive view of how UI affects the labor market. …

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unempoyment: (i) the … that all the shortrun fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the … problems faced by these conceptions in explaining the diversity of labor market experiences across the OECD labor markets. We …

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- 1. The Engineering Labor Market -- Part I. Engineering Education …. Engineers and Labor Markets -- 7. The Influence of LicensingEngineers on Their Labor Market -- 8. Dynamics of Engineering Labor … Markets -- 9. Bridge to Permanent Immigration or Temporary Labor? -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index. …