. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are …

This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in … the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend … components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

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 …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

significantly with productivity-enhancing technical change. This was, however, the case only in households where small children … with the family eventually redefined the concept of small children and so shifted the position of homemaker from being a …

cohabitation has not prevented a rise in the proportion of lone parents, and their numbers are growing rapidly. The children of …The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in … lone parents are relatively deprived, both in terms of income and adults' time for child care and housekeeping. Government …