force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … the relevant labor market institutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the different …

severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

This study investigates the effect of parental unemployment on children’s school performance. We use individual level … in Swedish unemployment during the beginning of the 1990s provides an ideal setting for testing the hypothesis that … parental unemployment affects children’s school performance. Our results indicate that having an unemployed father has a …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …

job applicants by employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these ….) could potentially help to explain the high and persistent unemployment in Europe. …

This paper extends a general equilibrium model of unemployment and working hours and evaluates the model on a 5 percent …. Furthermore, working time reductions may result in an increase in wage pressure, causing unemployment to rise. …