-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture … on sectoral-, educational- and occupational-specific unemployment. We suggest, on the basis of the regression results …

unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead in developing …

affect inflation. Likewise, the interaction between central bank independence and coordination does not affect unemployment. …

, real wages would indeed be quite responsive to unemployment. Moreover, the wage sweep-ups caused by nominal rigidity are … strongly correlated with unemployment suggesting that downward rigidity of nominal wages indeed contributes to unemployment. …

The concept of the "employment threshold" plays an important role in the public of unemployment. The employment … unemployment. Many contributions to this debate give the impression that the employment theshold is more or less a structural …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, ths policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …