In this paper I build a North-South model of international trade, economic growth and search-frictional unemployment in … the effects of intellectual property rights protection and trade liberalization on unemployment and welfare in the North …. Intellectual property rights protection decreases unemployment and increases welfare. Trade liberalization increases welfare but …

unemployment, several European economies display highly persistent unemployment dynamics. The theory of hysteresis challenges this … strong empirical evidence of unemployment hysteresis in advanced economies since the 1990s. Relying on an identification … unemployment rates to pre-shock levels. …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …