, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates … institutional rigidities affecting unemployment impact inactivity along the same line. To cope with common problems related to the … variables. New institutional series are proposed, namely to account for unemployment insurance net replacement rates and …

evidence is only starting to catch up. In particular, EPL is not robust as an indicator of overall unemployment, but previous …

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …

Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however … indicators are identified as significant determinants of unemployment. Endogeneity due to reverse causality is also considered by …

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …

' PC (relating the level of the inflation rate, not the change in this rate, to the rate of unemployment); and the …

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …