Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … significant positive relation between unemployment and right-wing criminal activities. We show further that the big difference in … right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This finding …

decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This cost of search is then decomposed into three components: unemployment … workers being more choosy. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment benefits can reduce the loss by serving as …

This paper considers the effects of labor mobility in a specific factors model when unemployment arises for matching … differential, but also in response to the difference in unemployment rates between the two countries. The two countries can diverge … in equilibrium in the sense that one country exhibits a high wage but a high unemployment rate whereas the other exhibits …

the degree of labour mobility. The analysis shows that transitory unemployment increases the likelihood of policy reversal …

unemployment than in some countries where wage bargaining is decentralized. The ??corporatiste?' countries do not seem to …

blamed for the persistent high unemployment rate in the Walloon Region, while a process per Region would lead to … differentiated wage increases leading towards lower wages in the Walloon Region and therefore less unemployment. The paper shows that … unlikely that the higher unemployment rate would lead towards wage moderation. In addition, regional bargaining could …

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …