In this paper, the authors incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping … unemployment insurance levels in a politico-conomic equilibrium. …

Recent research attempting to understand the behaviour of unemployment, and more generally the labour market itself …

Recent research attempting to understand the behaviour of unemployment, and more generally the labour market itself …

in this country. We argue that, due to such regulation, the French economy is locked at a high unemployment trap with low …

the paper determines the equilibrium levels of the bargained wage, employment, unemployment, discouraged workers and non …

institutions and show that the results are consistent with this view. …

aggregate unemployment. In this paper we explore a related but more specific issue: the consequences of immigration on the …

allowed for. The main findings are that youth unemployment was a severe problem in the 1980s, caused mainly by high transition … rates into nonparticipation and unemployment, rather than low transition rates into employment. Furthermore, for a certain …

In a large representative sample of young Norwegian workers, we estimate gross transitions to unemployment, education …