period when unemployment increased in Germany but fell in Britain and the US. I show that in this period, Germany experienced …

inflation. Among other things, the unemployment gap, which is the difference between unemployment rate and non …-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), is used to measure inflationary pressure from the labour market. This paper examines … revisional property of the NAIRU is also examined, as well as the forecast capacity of the unemployment gap with regard to wages …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

persisting increases in unemployment. This paper analyses the impacts of the crisis on euro area labour markets, paying … accelerate the adjustment capacity of euro area labour markets and help reduce the current high levels of structural unemployment. …

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 …

-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and … documents the evolution of labor market institutions and policies in the transition region. The data show a clear trend towards … test several predictions concerning the role of institutions and polices in explaining labor market outcomes. The results …