USA, the major problem of most European countries is the high rate of unemployment of the low skilled. To integrate … currently discussed determinants of wage distribution and unemployment into a common context, labor unions and qualification … unemployment rates and a wage dispersion affected by production technology, wage setting procedure, and qualification structure of …

conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … individuals who are initially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage … influences resulting in higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate …

-setting mechanisms and the cyclicality of unemployment in Euroland. We find that in the 1990s unemployment cyclicality has been higher in … still offer a convincing explanation for a significant part of Euroland's problem of persistently high unemployment. There …

equate the expected urban wage (given a downward rigid real wage in the urban sector) to the real wage. Unemployment is … endogenously determined. Interpreting unemployment as damage, urban pollution (damage denoted in units of labour) can also support … the same equilibrium with the value of damage equal to the value of resources otherwise lost through unemployment. However …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

-wanted ads and an unemployment subsidy, is highly contractionary. However, it leads to large welfare gains. The policy also plays …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …

comparatively weak, we develop a model that identifies distributional consequences of unemployment with their importance conditional …-income countries, well-being significantly depends on income, in highincome countries on the unemployment-related Gini. Insofar, our …