Based on a two-country model it is scrutinized how the structure of the unemployment benefit system affects the … consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover …

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

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

labor market can coexist with a generous welfare system to achieve low unemployment. Using a panel of 19 countries over 1960 …-2002, the paper identifies the elements of the flexicurity model that may have contributed to the low unemployment rate. A … the financing aspect, the paper finds that effective implementation will depend on the initial unemployment level and …

In a North-South product-cycle model, I study the short- and long-run effects on Northern unemployment of (i) trade … liberalization increases unemployment in the short and long run, while Southern trade liberalization has stronger opposite effects …. Surprisingly, tighter international patent protection yields a short-run unemployment increase, although it decreases unemployment …