"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …

heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …

1996-2003. During these years unemployment in Poland almost doubled. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the …

heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …

The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …