In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to … compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by … neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the employment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment …

. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … cyclical component of the unemployment rate, it can be demonstrated that the whole reported impact solely affects this …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of …