severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …

This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is … specified in which the psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The analysis reveals social … multiplier effects, and shows that multiple unemployment equilibria may emerge. Data on all 20- to 24-year-olds living in …

This paper extends a general equilibrium model of unemployment and working hours and evaluates the model on a 5 percent …. Furthermore, working time reductions may result in an increase in wage pressure, causing unemployment to rise. …

We exploit the exceptional variation in municipality-level unemployment and spending on labor market programs in Sweden … during the 1990s to identify the impact of unemployment and programs on crime. We identify a statistically significant effect … of unemployment on the incidence of overall crime, burglary, auto-theft and drug possession. A calculation suggests that …

programmes during their unemployment spell. Clustering of programmes to about half of the sample is prominent. The number of …. Descriptive inspection of how the unemployment spells end, shows that non-participants, i.e. workers with zero programmes …