EMU, e.g. due to further rising unemployment, become too large to bear. …

This paper investigates the determinants of German long-term unemployment. In particular a microeconometric event … factors such as receiving unemployment benefits have on the length of unemployment. The paper further discusses the advantages … unemployment. This is an important finding in terms of economic policy because it sheds light into appropriate policy measures that …

This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment … over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical “natural rate of unemployment” (NRU … unemployment are due, instead, to very prolonged after-effects of persistent (transitory but long-lasting) shocks. We argue that (a …

, such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, household savings and use them to compare the regional disparities …

persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …

capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is … excellent opportunity to test the relationship between unemployment and reservations wages. The analysis opens up the 'black box …

This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …