Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the marginalized workers, and show that ALMPs may increase unemployment. …

, unemployment and the size of the informal sector are affected by punishment policies, which has been ignored in the previous …

. Furthermore, if the presence of skill-biased technological shocks increase unemployment, this may explain why the market it …-between subsidizing education and thereby reducing unemployment and optimizing welfare may be eliminated. We analyse this issue in a …

associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …

actual unemployment. …

skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are …