This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal and quantitative …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

Since the mid-1980s, unemployment rates in Ireland and the Netherlands have plummeted, while the average rate for the … tightening of unemployment benefits - have helped to bring the Irish and Dutch rates down. Other European countries would benefit … from adopting similar reforms, but they are unlikely to see the same dramatic improvement in their unemployment numbers …

This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …: deregulation of State controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment rate. Labour …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

Konjunkturzyklus. Es zeigt sich, dass der jahrzehntelange Aufwärtstrend der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland vollständig durch Hysterese … erklärt werden kann. Dagegen folgte die Arbeitslosigkeit in den USA keinem Hysterese-Muster, auch nicht während der großen … Rezession. Deutschland überstand diese Rezession so gut, weil sowohl Hysterese als auch strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit durch …