-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 …

Census data show that the ratio of black to white unemployment rates, currently in excess of 2:1, was small or non … in the unemployment gap over the years 1880-1990 to identify the separate contributions of changes in observable worker … the relative educational status of black workers would have narrowed the unemployment gap slightly, but demand shifts …

The ratio of black to white unemployment rates is currently in excess of 2 to 1. We show that the racial unemployment …. Using available U.S. Census data for the years 1880 to 1990, we decompose changes over time in the unemployment gap to … black workers would have narrowed the unemployment gap slightly, but demand shifts adverse to black worker more that …

summarized as showing that the very existence of unemployment generates political support for "sclerosis". This observation may …

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …

-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …