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 …

able to increase the duration of their trade relationships. Evidence on duration of these relationships at the firm level …

We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … when search is endogenous. We assume that a union president, elected by majority voting determines the wage. We analyse the … 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 … simple educational model and next in a search equilibrium model including a skill choice decision. …