Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … the Anglo-Saxon countries, but institutional rigidities in continental Europe (?Krugman hypothesis?). An alternative view … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s … although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

into work. However, stigma surrounding non-employment history can create barriers to finding a job. Whilst unemployment …

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … the Anglo-Saxon countries, but institutional rigidities in continental Europe (‘Krugman hypothesis’). An alternative view … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …