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 …

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …

structural and cohesion funds, removed the trading barriers, increases foreign investments, reduced unemployment, increased labor …

investments, reduced unemployment and increased labor migration. In the paper the system dynamics model, which describes …

This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the … determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural … unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions result from …

After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian … models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer … (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate …

After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian … models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Luchinger, Meier and Stutzer … (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate …

This paper examines an open economy model in which equilibrium unemployment depends on capacity in the traded …-goods sector. The model is estimated using U.K. quarterly data and compared with alternative concepts of equilibrium unemployment … utilisation and the degree of volatility of the real exchange rate interact to generate changes in equilibrium unemployment. This …

be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U …