The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book … supply, and labour force participation. He argues that the growth of unemployment and long-term unemployment is mainly due to … a lack of aggregated demand and not due to high unemployment benefits. Economics of the Labour Market shows that …

"The labor markets of important OECD countries show a similar picture: high wages and low unemployment for skilled … labor market frictions and wage setting institutions the author shows the importance of such imperfections in order to … workers and low wages but high unemployment for low-skilled workers. During the last 10 years this fact has been studied under …

This volume provides an up-to-date overview of activation strategies in unemployment benefit systems and social …, governance and implementation as well as on the outcomes of activation in terms of labor market and social integration. The …Over the last decade, many industrialized countries shifted from passive unemployment and welfare benefit regimes and …

This book studies unemployment and inflation in economic crises, first considering the scenario of a demand shock in … Europe. In that case, monetary and fiscal interaction would cause widespread oscillations in European unemployment and … unemployment or European inflation; there would also be an explosion of European government purchases and an implosion of the …

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of … unemployment which the economy experiences and whether a decline in the level of unemployment will foster or deteriorate the growth …

, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for low-skilled workers, and the …