This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

firm affect the worker's unemployment risk? The empirical analyses are based on three matched data sets: (i) survey data … registered unemployment. The main findings are: First, the resources and economic situation of the firm affect the workers' risks … and productive firms. Second, the effect on unemployment risks of the acquisition of skills within the firm is conditioned …

between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate is extremely important. This tradeoff has become known as the Phillips … statistical technique that solves the omitted variables problem, to estimate the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment for … international context for the vast majority of the countries studied is affecting the inflation versus unemployment tradeoff. …

account for the empirical relation between the job-finding rate and the vacancy-unemployment ratio, provided that search costs … ; unemployment …

. Controlling for demand-side and supply-side determinants of unemployment, we show that the PTB plays a significant role in … explaining unemployment in the continental European countries, but not in the Nordic nor the Anglo-Saxon ones. We also show that … there is no relationship between the incidence of the PTB and unemployment persistence, even though there is a positive one …