This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

Anglo-Saxon countries have been relatively succesful over last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing … unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead in developing …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … imperfections for explaining differences in employment performances is supported by our panel data analysis, in which venture …

-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture … on sectoral-, educational- and occupational-specific unemployment. We suggest, on the basis of the regression results …

play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …

structural change, new firms and innovations and therefore possibly also nowadays for employment growth. …

politicoeconomic equilibrium with little employment and substantial investor protection. Our prediction of a negative cross …