Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …

This paper investigates unemployment persistence in the 27 EU member states by applying fractional integration methods …

This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and … characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of output to unemployment is driven by idiosyncratic factors in both euro …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases … taxation to tax competition. -- capital taxation ; asymmetric tax competition ; rigid wages ; unemployment ; losses from trade …