How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe …, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some … have had in the 1960s and 1970s. Similarly, other institutions closer to the core of the welfare state have caused no net …

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … age range, we find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than do applicants with …

results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances … risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …

This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment … larger increase since the mid-1980s. The paper then develops a model of capital accumulation, unemployment and factor prices …. Using this model to look at the data, it reaches two main conclusions: The initial increase in unemployment, from the mid …

This paper develops a rational expectations model with multiple equilibrium unemployment rates where the price of … a permanent reduction in wealth and consumption and a permanent increase in the unemployment rate. My work suggests that …