This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … European unemployment rates observed during the seventies. The explanation given is that even if the unemployment rate would … decrease it can only do so gradually because of matching frictions which in turn implies that the tax burden remains high and …

EPL varying among workers of different skills on the level and composition of unemployment, job flows, productivity and …

On the face of it, Austria’s labour market performs very well, which is reflected in one of the lowest unemployment … rates in the EU. However, while many of the euro area members have recently succeeded in reducing unemployment, the Austrian …. In addition the unemployment statistics are distorted by the relatively low labour force participation of older workers …

feature of the Finnish economy compared with that of Sweden and Denmark is the higher level of unemployment. In the early 1990 … adapt. The spectacular recovery of the Finnish economy has pushed up labour demand. While unemployment has fallen back from …

Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem …This dissertation consists of theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature on search and matching, with a …

This paper analyzes an urn–ball matching model in which workers decide how intensively they sample job openings and … relation between the job–finding rate and the vacancy–unemployment ratio, provided that search costs are small and that search …

immigration. The first paper gives an overview on the economic literature on the impact of immigration on unemployment and wages … Arbeitsmarktergebnis (bspw. Löhne und Arbeitslosigkeit) sowie die einheimische Immigrationspolitik. Wir erweitern damit die bestehende … Papier gibt eine Übersicht zur bestehenden Literatur bezüglich des Einflusses von Immigration auf Löhne und Arbeitslosigkeit …

In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We … affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given minimum real wage. The bottom-line was that product market reforms … will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under most circumstances.Modeling a microfoundation of mark-ups, we have …