. Empirical results concerning Europe and selected other industrial countries reveal that the cyclical link between unemployment … sector, and labor market flexibility. A clear-cut importance of exchange rate volatility cannot be found. Some conclusions …

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany … reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business … disentangling periods of low and high unemployment we find that the effect of unemployment on new business formation is only …

macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of … downturn, with an approximately 0.7 percentage point increase for each one percentage point rise in the unemployment rate … percentage point increase in the regional unemployment rate leading to an up to 0.8 percent decrease in consumption. …

We set up and estimate a structural unobserved components open economy model for the rate of unemployment and the real … factors. Thus, the results indicate that the dramatic changes in the Swedish unemployment rate during the 1990s mainly was a … inflation is found to be quite sensitive to the unemployment gap. An increase in cyclical unemployment by 1 percentage point …

A common assumption when analysing unemployment is that the economy is closed. However, the equilibrium rate of … unemployment is not identified in an open economy unless the foreign sector is modeled. Therefore we set up and estimate a … structural unobserved components open economy model for the unemployment rate and the real exchange rate. This approach enables …

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …

The impact of economic fluctuations on the total unemployment rate is widely studied, however, with respect to age- and … gender-specific unemployment, this relationship is not so well examined. We apply the gap version of Okun’s law, aiming to … estimate youth unemployment rate sensitivity to output deviations from its potential level. Additionally, we aim to compare …

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …