dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …

inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …

The global recession is likely to results in higher structural unemployment for some time in many OECD countries. This … paper assesses how the shock to aggregate unemployment as a result of the economic crisis may be transmitted to structural … unemployment through hysteresis effects that occur through the rise in long-term unemployment. The estimated increase in structural …

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 …

This paper analyses the determinants of structural unemployment rates in a two-stage approach. First, time … drivers of structural unemployment. Consistent with earlier studies, the level of product market regulation, union density and … the unemployment benefit replacement rate also play an important role in explaining changes in the NAIRU although there is …

effects vary with prevailing economic conditions and institutions. Impulse responses of aggregate outcomes (GDP growth … that some labour market reforms (e.g. of unemployment benefit systems and job protection) pay off more quickly in good …