employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

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 …

on German linked survey and administrative data. To study the causal relationship between unemployment and multiple … effects of job loss are long-lasting, growing more profound the longer the duration of unemployment and persisting following …

the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and … ; unemployment …

, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity … ; tax progressivity ; optimal taxation ; collective wage bargaining ; unemployment ; microsimulation ; computable general …