unemployment are large, countercyclical, and highly coincident in the four European countries examined in this paper. The most … surprising finding is that exits from unemployment exhibit a countercyclical pattern, similar to that in Japan and the United …

employed to unemployment facilitates a reduction in the level of employment protection; that unemployment benefits are lower …, the more employment reacts to wages; and that a higher level of unemployment and a right-wing government slow down the …

unemployment, and relatively greater income equality, with the opposite path being pursued by the United States. While structural … shocks may initially create a positive trade-off between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic path of … contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment trade-off might emerge and how it might subsequently …

of unemployment and vacancies to negative shocks to the aggregate productivity of labor. …

We analyze the impact of product market competition on unemployment and wages, and how this depends on labour market … competition. We find that increased product market competition reduces unemployment, and that it does so more in countries with …

This paper studies, in a model with unemployment, how labour market status affects the preferences for public spending … that high unemployment may destroy the existence of a voting equilibrium. …

to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …

Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI …

, if basic skills-deficient workers get training and keep their jobs, they will continue to pay taxes that support …

Social experiments conducted in Pennsylvania and Washington tested the effect of offering Unemployment Insurance (UI …