Purpose – To investigate the reasons for the persistent rise in European (Euro area) unemployment during the 1990s … the Kalman Filter. Findings – The rise in European unemployment is predominately due to the slow and incomplete reaction … unemployment between the Euro area and the USA can be accounted for by differences in labour productivity is identified as an …

a modestly progressive income tax early in the twentieth century. Later, in his essay “Control or economic law” he took …

age pattern affects wages and (un)employment. We develop a general equilibrium model where wages for young and old workers … relative number of older workers for a given labor force size has no effect on young and old unemployment. If, however, unions … attach a higher weight to the wishes of the old, the unemployment rate of the old (young) will increase (decrease). In this …

Economists face difficulties explaining the strong cyclicality of US unemployment. This paper contributes both by … unemployment, and the results suggest an upper bound on how far they can go in explaining unemployment cyclicality. …

In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … steady-state unemployment, but also slow down the transitional dynamics. We then provide an empirical illustration based on a … the persistence of unemployment. …

Drawing on data from 11 successive waves of yearly wage surveys carried out by the Public Employment Service in Hungary … determinant of unemployment, it seems reasonable to expect that long-discovered systemic differences in unemployment across groups …

that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …