, such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, household savings and use them to compare the regional disparities …

persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …

capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is … excellent opportunity to test the relationship between unemployment and reservations wages. The analysis opens up the 'black box …

This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …

unemployment policies. In our model, firms face a pool of applicants and observe unemployment duration and a signal about … recent evidence from audit studies. Optimal policy takes into account that unemployment benefits can affect hiring … probabilities by making unemployment duration more or less informative and by changing the applications-per-vacancy ratio due to …

of liquidity provision on unemployment outcomes. Based on a RD Design, I find that granting unemployed workers with a … bonus equal to half of their previous monthly earnings decreases the probability of exiting unemployment within 8 weeks by … unemployment benefits decreases the same outcome by 1.9%. Then, theoretical results from Landais (2014) are used to combine these …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …