share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor - either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterizes the Italian labour market, notably the 30 …

We focus on the equilibrium unemployment rate as a parameter implied by a dynamic aggregate model of wage- and price … setting. The equilibrium unemployment rate depends on institutional labour market institutions through mark-up coefficients …. Compared to existing studies, the resulting final equation for unemployment has richer dynamic structure. The empirical …

of the individual is high compared to the bargaining power of the union, there is more unemployment with individual wage … vacancy is sufficiently high, there is more unemployment with individual wage setting. Finally, for a constant marginal … bargaining produces more unemployment. …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is 'tight' because unemployment … rates are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn't been since …

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …

In the mid ninetees unemployment substantially decreased in some EMU-countries, notably in Ireland, Spain and the … of unemployment has altered considerably …

-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 …. -- unemployment ; wage-setting mechanisms ; European Monetary Union …

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …