Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in … force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for …. Nevertheless, the model explains between ~65% and ~95% of the variability in unemployment and inflation. For Italy, the rate of …

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long …-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for more than one year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover …, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term unemployment. This paper explores factors associated with long …

The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … unemployment insurance system aiming at reducing high European unemployment rates should consider both effects. This paper provides … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from …

This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation for 10 of the euro area countries. The … combination of low wage inflation and high unemployment in Europe is usually attributed to a rise in the natural rate of … unemployment. Using a panel data approach, this paper models directly the specific structural determinants of the natural rate of …

unemployment. The results suggest that the elasticity is indeed negative, i.e. that real wages are lower in local labour markets … with higher unemployment. The size of the elasticity for the euro area is similar to that found in previous studies for a … number of countries, including the United States. Furthermore, there is some variation in the unemployment elasticity by …

According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in … to high unemployment benefits. In this paper we reassess the turbulence-unemployment relationship using a matching model … Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998, 2004) are reversed, and higher turbulence leads to a reduction in unemployment. Thus, changes in …

Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990s from 3% to 18% in just four years. It has since fallen back to the average … unemployment. We then discuss and research the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process that has brought … unemployment back to a 'normal' level. We argue that these institutions cannot be blamed for the increase in unemployment, but that …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

increased probability that employed workers become unemployed and with a reduction in worker flows from unemployment to …

This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …: deregulation of State controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment rate. Labour …