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

data are used to estimate the relationship between the incidence and duration of sick leave and subsequent unemployment … is associated with higher risk of unemployment. Women have a significantly higher risk then men of unemployment …

This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is … specified in which the social and psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The theoretical … analysis reveals social multiplier effects, and shows that multiple unemployment equilibria may emerge. Data on all 20- to 24 …

unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period between 1992 and 1999, it also studies alternative measures of …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics … unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher in the Slovak Republic, than in the Czech Republic. The wage subsidy and the …

severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

. Both marginal tax rates are of ambiguous sign. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates …