-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 …

largely varies depending on demographic groups: it appears to be much larger for men than that for women and that the … bargaining power of women with young children is essentially zero …

largely varies depending on demographic groups: it appears to be much larger for men than that for women and that the … bargaining power of women with young children is essentially zero. -- Commuting ; search model ; simultaneous equations …

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 …

unemployment rate equation is also estimated for different categories of workers. While men and women are equally affected by …This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is …

. The unemployment rate equation is also estimated for different categories of workers. Although men and women are equally …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 …

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …