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 …

the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … to explain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

This paper builds up a simple New Keynesian model and revisits the relationship between unemployment and in ation in … beyond the tradeoff between the first moments of unemployment and infl ation provided by the short-run Phillips curve. Higher … volatility in ifln ation raises unemployment at low-frequency. Increased volatility in infl ation makes nominal wages more …

opportunities, here expressed as the unemployment rate differential for each single territory with respect to its surroundings …