such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

The focus of our study is on determining whether unemployment rates in 8 New Industrialized Economies conform to the … findings and confirms hysteresis in all unemployment rates except for Asian economies/countries of Thailand and the Philippines. …

on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

This paper attempts to analyse the macroeconomic effects of unemployment benefits in a small open economy. We adopt a … Danish economy. We then analyse the effects of a fall in the unemployment compensation rate on the economy. The results … rise in net exports. Due to this trade-off, the net effect of a fall in the compensation rate on the aggregate unemployment …

rate. Labor market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …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 …

continuing convergence of employment and unemployment patterns for men and women. However, some recent negative trends include a … rise in unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, a deteriorating youth labor market, and a stagnant gender earnings …