This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …

popular concept in labor economics that describes how individual wages decrease with higher local unemployment. While housing …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …