-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset provides an interesting … macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …

unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states …

This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the … and unemployment but increases vacancies. Additionally, the model explains the average level of unemployment insurance …

unemployment or faster growth. Weak output growth after such a cost shock is somewhat puzzling and has led some to question the … structurally slower real wage growth, that is, "wage moderation," does raise output growth and lower unemployment rates. However, I …

, India and the former Eastern bloc into the world trading system, the removal of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and …

labour and capital below unity. We show that compared to the Cobb-Douglas case, the likelihood of indeterminacy under a …

We study the role of uncertainty shocks in explaining unemployment dynamics, separating out the role of aggregate and … measure aggregate and sectoral uncertainty and compare their effects on the unemployment rate in a standard macroeconomic … vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We find that aggregate uncertainty leads to an immediate increase in unemployment, with …

EPL discourages both. The overall impact on equilibrium unemployment is thus ambiguous, depending on the characteristics … destruction effect is stronger, thus raising the unemployment rate. …