. Controlling for country and time fixed effects, and using dynamic panel data techniques, we find evidence that increasing the … also some evidence that more flexibility leads to lower unemployment rates and to lower rates of long-term unemployment … introduce more unemployment persistence. …

While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we … believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system …

functions for left-wing and right-wing individuals where inflation and unemployment enter negatively. We use these functions to … test the root assumption of partisan business cycle models where leftwing individuals care more about unemployment relative …