We incorporate equilibrium unemployment due to imperfect matching into a model of trade in intermediate inputs (Ethier … each intermediate input. Steady state unemployment is reduced after trade integration because more vacancies are opened … firms that is often associated with deeper trade integration is unlikely, per se, to increase unemployment. …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …

-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …

struggling to emerge from the crisis. Reflecting the weakness of this traditional sector, which is labour intensive, unemployment … construction sector.<p> To tackle high and persistent unemployment and thus stave off social exclusion, Ireland needs to further …

standard model of equilibrium unemployment and search in the labor market by the distinction between age specific separation … to this, the unemployment rate in Germany and Japan will rise as a consequence of the increase in the share of elderly …

, unemployment rate and market tightness as well as on the overall economic growth. We aim at determining whether a portion of … unemployment can be explained by either the increased public hiring or shrinking of the number of public employees in the last … decade. As the results suggest, in recessionary times the expansion of the public sector managed to keep the unemployment …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …