to workers. In the short run, union membership dynamics are mainly driven by changes in unemployment. In turn, changes in …

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy … - on the ability of these theories to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behaviour. The paper considers …

result is not robust when important labour market imperfections are considered. Much of the migration literature focuses on … the determination of the size of the immigration flow given a fixed minimum wage and the level of unemployment in the …

The European ageing process will lead to a dramatic rise in dependency ratios over the next decades. At the same time … labour mobility will increase as a result of greater European economic integration. We analyse the implications of migration … and ageing for European social security systems. With uncoordinated social security policies, national pensions funds …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

equilibrium, thereby generating unemployment in the ‘East’. This slows the migration of human capital towards the East, but … western region. Unions in the West will benefit from this, provided human capital has low migration costs relative to raw … both regions are set by the unions of the ‘West’ – the region with a greater initial relative stock of human capital. We …

stock market valuations throughout the 1920s. Landmark court decisions in favour of trade unions in the late 1920s, as well …

This paper studies the impact of a selective extension of unemployment benefit duration on the incidence of … unemployment in Austria. As the new law applies only to elderly workers in certain regions of the country after June 1988, a quasi …-experimental situation is created. Unemployment entry is found to rise by between four and eleven percentage points due to the new law. The …