flexibility of the labor market increases both the employment rate and the rate of participation in the labor force. A … conservative estimate suggests that if France were to make its labor markets as flexible as those in the US, its employment rate … larger in the female than in the male labor market, although both groups seem to have similar long run coefficients. There is …

reform on wages and unemployment. The simulation results show that general equilibrium wage reactions tend to mitigate labour …

The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS did nothing to … prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s. The empirical literature about GUIS indicates that … literature on reforming the system of unemployment insurance has arisen, most of it aiming at marginal reforms only. It turns out …

liquidity in the currency board-country. In the long run this corresponds to the risk of increasing the structural unemployment …