unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and … could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states …

high standard of social security for the unemployed. It provides details of an empirical analysis of unemployment …The paper discusses the flexicurity model, its key policy elements, and association with a low unemployment rate and a …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual … perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers for workers who move from …

€”to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively … the limitation of current unemployment and disability benefit schemes. The paper identifies possible strategies to … activate recipients, and focuses on strategies to boost youth employment rates. The paper also discusses the possibility of …

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … most likely because of a structural change in workers' behavior, i.e. "wage moderation". The outward shift was particularly … large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …

negotiations, the degree of unionization and the system of tripartism, the wage setting mechanism, and labor market programs. The … paper makes an assessment of the flexibility and efficiency of the Cypriot labor market, and in particular, the wage …

nation’s 2000-01 economic crisis. Higher growth could reduce unemployment and raise living standards toward European Union …

This paper analyzes Algeria’s unemployment and labor market developments and assesses the factors that may hamper … employment creation. It estimates employment-to-GDP elasticity for Algeria’s main sectors and different age groups, and … assesses the effect of improvements in Algeria’s labor market flexibility on unemployment outcomes. The results on the …

-size companies and depends on the nature of wage-bargaining systems. …