This paper reviews the Italian unemployment experience, analyzing in particular the time-series behavior of … unemployment rates along the path that brought Italy into Europe's Economic and Monetary Union, and their disaggregated structure … across geographical and demographic dimensions. High aggregate unemployment is a reflection of highly concentrated …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

The Danish labour market has undergone a remarkable change during the 1990s with a reduction of the unemployment rate … unemployment insurance system. This paper offers an overview of the developments in the Danish labour market during the 1990s, and … reviews the major policy shifts, as well as possible explanations of the remarkable reduction in unemployment. …

Over the last quarter century, the Spanish unemployment rate has gone from 3.5 per cent to 24 per cent of the labor … shocks and institutions behind it, and provide a set of policy implications derived from our analysis. …

in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … high unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one "American" steadystate featuring low … unemployment, high mobility and low unemployment insurance. …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …