not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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 …

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 … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …

supply-variables affect unemployment in the long-run. Further we also investigate the impact of different supply and demand …-shock on long-term unemployment. Our findings suggest that there is hysteresis in both countries, and that it happens through … different channels, namely, long-term unemployment, productivity, capital stock and real long-term interest rates. These results …

The persistence of high unemployment has been one of the most puzzling developments of the past twenty years or so. In … the UK, unemployment averaged 2.1% between 1966 and 1973, and since 1974 it has risen to an average of 7.5%. The … prevailing view of the persistence of unemployment and of the continuous rise in the NAIRU is that explanations and solutions can …

determination of unemployment and wages in Germany and the U.K. Underlying this proposition is the notion that capital accumulation … dramatic rise in unemployment in the 1980s was attributed to adverse supply shocks. However, after the reversal of the shocks …, unemployment persisted which some economists explained by resorting to inflexibilities in the labor markets. It is worth noting …

This paper studies the contribution of inflow and outflow rates to the unemployment dynamics in the long-run. I find … unemployment rate. Inflow and outflow rates account for roughly similar proportions of overall unemployment variability in the long-run …

Long-term unemployment more than doubled during the UK’s Great Recession. Only a small fraction of this persistent … increase can be accounted for by the changing composition of unemployment across personal and work history characteristics … participation flows can account for over two-thirds of the high level of long-term unemployment following the financial crisis …