may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is likely to occur if technological change is associated with an …

investigate how unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … have experienced a mild increase, other countries have had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …

Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s … although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This Paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …