Spain and Portugal are two neighbour economies which share many characteristics. Spanish unemployment is more than … double Portuguese unemployment, however. In this chapter we resort to Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) techniques to …, their effects on unemployment were much more long-lasting in Spain than in Portugal. …

effects, low real wages and low unemployment are the result. With an intermediate view, i.e. when partial equilibrium effects … within a sector are taken into account, high real wages and unemployment result. If all general equilibrium effects are … simultaneously considered, we once again obtain a situation of low wages and unemployment. The assumption that unions and employers …

During the nineties, unemployment fell in a number of European countries while it remained high in others. This Paper … political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within those bureaucracies concerned with the unemployment … problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in countries where unemployment …

The unemployment dynamics in the Mezzogiorno of Italy seem to corroborate the New Economic Geography predictions …, whereby, under some specific hypotheses, a stronger economic integration can amplify the regional polarisation of unemployment … carries out a comparative analysis of unemployment rates of the different ‘Mezzogiornos of Europe’. Finally, some policy …

and talents in the transformation process. To a large extent, the emergence of unemployment is an indicator of this … restructuring and reallocation. This paper surveys some of the issues involved in the rise of CEE unemployment as well as the policy …

, unemployment and capital accumulation. First, we recover the partial equilibrium over-employment phenomenon put to the fore by …

responsiveness of the unemployment rate to changes in macroeconomic variables. Most importantly, private information increases the … responsiveness of the unemployment rate to changes in the general (type- and effort independent) productivity level. If the changes … also affect the information structure, the responsiveness of the unemployment rate may be large, even if the changes in …

This Paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labour market adjustment processes, (b) the … unemployment responses to each shock. Our analysis permits us to distinguish between the short- and long-run effects of the shocks …