interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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 …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

institutions; on the basis of which, and recent theoretical developments, specific support is adduced for the German, contemporary …

indicator -- and our macro performance outcome is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … relations ; labor market institutions ; unemployment … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …