four countries (Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Spain) … rise in unemployment, vary considerably between countries. In order to shed light on this issue, this paper examines … the knock-on effects, influenced by the specific institutional frameworks, on employment and unemployment. On the basis of …

global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and …This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent … sets of dynamic simulations which account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our …

Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very … dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … matching model, we estimate that about 45% of the surge in Spanish unemployment could have been avoided had Spain adopted …