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 …

Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s … although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …

This note tests whether the extraordinary rise in Spanish unemployment in the 1980s can be traced back to rigidities in … ‘Krugman hypothesis’). I can establish that youth joblessness is key to the Spanish unemployment problem, but sampling … procedures in the data set make it impossible to track the youth unemployment problem across time in a satisfactory way. Even …

unemployment because firms would thus be prevented from employing workers with very low productivities. …

2.7 percentage points. On the other hand, the policy change had important spillover effects into the unemployment and … sickness insurance program. Specifically, the share of individuals receiving unemployment benefits increased by roughly 3 and …

institutional and economic factors like pension systems, unemployment, and employment protection legislation. The analysis shows …

wage, unemployment, and non-employment structures between 1988 and 1998, when both unemployment and non-employment rates … moderation on average. Although there have also been virtually no changes in the unemployment structure, the relative non …