Since the mid-1980s, unemployment rates in Ireland and the Netherlands have plummeted, while the average rate for the … tightening of unemployment benefits - have helped to bring the Irish and Dutch rates down. Other European countries would benefit … from adopting similar reforms, but they are unlikely to see the same dramatic improvement in their unemployment numbers …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

is modest. -- Duration analysis ; hysteresis ; inequality ; wages ; unemployment ; hazard rates ; employment ; income … transition rates. We focus on hysteresis effects of the durations and incidence of previous spells out of work. We estimate … flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …

Unemployment rates in both the UK and the Netherlands have declined substantially since the early 1980s. This has been … a decline in equilibrium unemployment, the result of combinations of supply-oriented policies. The combinations are …

Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper … agreements in the previous year, whereas strike activity is high in the Netherlands if, in the preceding year, real wage … formation on a macro-level is much higher in France than in the Netherlands. …

Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper … agreements in the previous year, whereas strike activity is high in the Netherlands if, in the preceding year, real wage … formation on a macro-level is much higher in France than in the Netherlands …