The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy … - on the ability of these theories to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behaviour. The paper considers …

in more detail labour flexibility, namely labour market flows, long-term unemployment and labour force deprivation. The … third part addresses wage flexibility and relative wages, with special attention paid to regional unemployment elasticity of … labour mobility, labour deprivation due to long-term unemployment, skill mismatch and emerging signs of inflexibility in wage …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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 …

in this country. We argue that, due to such regulation, the French economy is locked at a high unemployment trap with low …

allowed for. The main findings are that youth unemployment was a severe problem in the 1980s, caused mainly by high transition … rates into nonparticipation and unemployment, rather than low transition rates into employment. Furthermore, for a certain …

In a large representative sample of young Norwegian workers, we estimate gross transitions to unemployment, education …