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 …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment. …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

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 …

sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would … in unemployment signifies a more accurate reflection of disguised unemployment that already existed in the mid-1990s …

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …