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There is still a lack of knowledge on how to effectively help the long-term unemployed into employment. We evaluate a wide range of active labour market policies for this target group, using a dynamic matching approach. Measures vary considerably in the extent to which they improve labour market...
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For high wage countries, such as Austria, employment growth in foreign affiliates abroad is commonly expected to substitute for jobs at home. Estimates from bilateral data on the foreign and domestic activities of Austrian manufacturing firms over the period 1990-1996, covering the 10 most...
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Homeownership is believed to cause higher unemployment. This is because homeowners face higher mobility costs that … households. This facilitates a new test of the effects of homeownership on mobility and unemployment. We find only weak evidence … that homeowners are less willing to move and no evidence of higher unemployment risks relative to renters. …
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This paper discusses the link between financial development and macroeconomic volatility by exploring some of the ways through which financial development may affect business cycle fluctuations. To be specific, we examine whether stock market development exerts an unambiguous effect on...
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