the implications of the Great Recession analyzing labor market data from 20 OECD countries. Comparing the Great Recession …. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates …. For prime age workers employment rates were also affected but for older workers the Great Recession did not have a large …

The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence …’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically, costs of firing and hiring reduce employment and stimulate unemployment when …

Using data from the 1981 Family Expenditure Survey we estimate a logit model for the choice between unemployment and … employment, using explanatory variables such as tax and social security benefit rates. Other variables represent the … estimates do not suggest that employment is significantly explained by the tax-benefit system. Nevertheless, we simulate the …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

-run unemployment rate) and the lag structure of the employment determination, wage setting, and labour force participation decisions …