Reducing rigidity in labor markets is key to lowering unemployment. Theoretical models suggest that the impact of such … especially for changes in employment protection and the unemployment benefit system the impact on unemployment is mixed across …

the effects of the unemployment and early drop-out from school and training on income inequality. In this regard, updating … processes and their results in the new economic context. Our results confirmed a positive relationship between unemployment rate …

This paper models regional earnings and unemployment in the ten regions of Great Britain between 1972 and 1995, paying … persistence in regional unemployment rates. We find no evidence of a negative effect of the overall unemployment rate on the …

unemployment rates in 439 NUTS-3 German districts. We employ a semi-parametric approach – spatial filtering – in order to uncover … filtering analysis of regional unemployment rates in Germany. Furthermore, we exploit the resulting spatial filter as an …

access to credit attain higher wages for several periods after high school graduation. The unemployed maintain their … consumption by running down their assets, while the employed save to buffer against future unemployment spells. I also show that …, unlike in models with exogenous income streams, unemployment transfers, by allowing agents to attain higher wages do not …

Nickell, Nunziata and Ochel [Economic Journal, 2005] argue that unemployment rates cointegrate with labour market …-sectional dependencies are taken into account. This suggests that the estimated impact of institutions on unemployment is spurious. …

This paper tests whether the impact of labour taxes on unemployment is symmetric with respect to increases and … component model to account for the fact that unemployment rates and labour taxes are non-stationary but not co integrated. We … rate of unemployment. For Anglo-Saxon countries, no impact of labour taxes on unemployment is found. …