countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

and turns of unemployment rates in Europe and elsewhere. …This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and …

This paper reconsiders the problem of unemployment in Europe at multiple geographic levels and through time from 1984 … unemployment in Europe, following the insight of Harris and Todaro (1970) that pay inequalities influence job search. With our own … European unemployment. Important local effects include the economic growth rate, relative wealth or poverty, and the proportion …

. One of the policies necessary to achieve stabilization is full employment. However, the growth rate of unemployment in … the unemployment problem, the volatility of the growth rate of unemployment has to be known in order to launch appropriate … employed to estimate the volatility with symmetric and asymmetric effects. The monthly data on unemployment is downloaded to …

crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type … temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

and turns of unemployment rates in Europe and elsewhere …This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and …

bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …

crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type … temporary employment, to unemployment were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

The OECD's unemployment problem is largely concentrated among low-skilled workers. In this paper, four explanations of … low-skilled workers' unemployment are examined: wage-setting institutions, employment regulation, globalization, and … achieve low rates of low-skilled unemployment. In contrast, investment in active labour market policies pays off in form of …

1985-2012. The NAIRU is a poor proxy for 'structural unemployment': Labor market institutions - employment protection …