protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates based on local projections find negative short-run effects of …

Using new quarterly narrative evidence, this paper examines the macroeconomic impact of reforms of unemployment …

ratio and the relatively generous unemployment benefit system. …

flows. Similarly, countries with higher unemployment benefits and more coordinated wage bargaining systems are characterised …

some countries and sectors, our results point to a negative link between employment growth, the unemployment benefit …

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods … presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is potentially a narrow definition, we also take into account the existence … of structural breaks and non-linear dynamics in unemployment. Finally, we examine whether CEECsu0092 unemployment …

surrounding the effects of rule-based monetary policy on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We employ a Bayesian … policy ; model uncertainty ; Bayesian model averaging ; unemployment gap ; Taylor rule …