among firms affects simultaneously growth and unemployment. On the one hand, an increase of the elasticity of substitution …

consequence of this distortion is the coming about of wait unemployment, i.e., unemployed queuing for high-paid jobs. Employment …

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …

growth of the number of part-time jobs was an important reason for employment growth and the related decline in unemployment. …

Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …

The development of the unemployment rate di¤ers substantially between OECD countries.In this paper we investigate to … what extent these differences are related to labor market institutions.In our analysis we use data of eighteen OECD … countries over the period 1960-1994 and show that the way in which institutions interact is important …