business cycles and labour market institutions on total unemployment, equilibrium unemployment and cyclical unemployment. Our …Empirical evidence concerning the reasons for differences in unemployment dynamics within the group of OECD countries … empirical results confirm the considerations of Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) by showing that institutions indirectly influence …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …

Countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions in the United States act as a propagation mechanism, contributing to … both the high persistence of unemployment and its weak correlation with productivity. We show this by modifying an … otherwise standard frictional model of the labor market to incorporate a stochastic and state-dependent process for unemployment …

predict unemployment in Spain. We include a new predictor for Spanish unemployment based on internet information provided by … queries and unemployment. Besides that, the inclusion of internet activity enhances model's prediction performance …

reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

any economy, Nigeria still contends with problems of high inflation and unemployment. This study examines the Phillips … curve hypothesis (inflation and unemployment trade-off) and its stability in Nigeria from 1980 to 2016 using the … between inflation and unemployment. The results of the ARDL bounds testing, FMOLS, DOLS, static OLS and CCR estimations …

Despite a low unemployment rate, wage growth in the U.S. was negligible during the 2013-2015 period. Conventional … linear models of the relationship between wages and unemployment, the so- called wage Phillips curve (WPC), and previous … models of the WPC that rely on regime-switching driven only by changes in unemployment, provide a poor fit in the aftermath …