labor market can coexist with a generous welfare system to achieve low unemployment. Using a panel of 19 countries over 1960 …-2002, the paper identifies the elements of the flexicurity model that may have contributed to the low unemployment rate. A … the financing aspect, the paper finds that effective implementation will depend on the initial unemployment level and …

Traditionally, the impacts of the rights of financial institutions and workers on corporate performance have been …

elderly labor force participation and youth unemployment. From a theoretical point of view, there is no convincing argument …

unemployment rates in some states. Federal government transfers to households also appear to have adversely affected work … incentives in high unemployment states by limiting participation in the labor force. …

extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different … relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the …

flexibility with state-provided unemployment insurance and can be applied only to new entrants in the market without affecting the …

unemployment, including the sharp rise in U.S. long-term unemployment during the Great Recession of 2007-09. About 75% of the … forecast error variance of unemployment is accounted for by cyclical factors-real GDP changes (?Okun‘s Law?), monetary and … dispersion of industry-level stock returns, account for the remaining 25 percent. For U.S. long-term unemployment the split …

.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that supports that changes in state-level unemployment rates are linked … causality going from mismatches and housing conditions to unemployment rates. The numerical estimates imply that the structural … unemployment rate in 2010 was about 1¾ percentage points higher than before the onset of the housing market meltdown at end-2006 …

JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores … the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of … increases in unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions …