Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment …. The empirical results are basically consistent with an insider view of labor market institutions. Labor market … institutions tend to protect (older) employees but might harm (young) entrants. Remarkable is especially the significant and very …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for … of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …

the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …