The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal and quantitative …

This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …: deregulation of State controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment rate. Labour …

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. …

Konjunkturzyklus. Es zeigt sich, dass der jahrzehntelange Aufwärtstrend der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland vollständig durch Hysterese … erklärt werden kann. Dagegen folgte die Arbeitslosigkeit in den USA keinem Hysterese-Muster, auch nicht während der großen … Rezession. Deutschland überstand diese Rezession so gut, weil sowohl Hysterese als auch strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit durch …

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

protection ; labour market institutions ; unemployment ; international comparison …This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous …

protection ; labour market institutions ; unemployment ; international comparison …This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous …

In this paper the effects of institutional variables on unemployment are reinvestigated for nine OECD countries. The … unemployment may differ across countries, not only in absolute terms but also in terms of sign. The main results are the following …. Fourthly, based on a cross country comparison some evidence is found that some of the considered labour market institutions …