reßected by an increasing returns to scale matching function, which may imply an indeterminate equilibrium. Hence, the model is … capable to generate business ßuctuations, driven by self-fulÞlling belief, characterised by unemployment persistence. A …

This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … European unemployment rates observed during the seventies. The explanation given is that even if the unemployment rate would … decrease it can only do so gradually because of matching frictions which in turn implies that the tax burden remains high and …

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods … presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is potentially a narrow definition, we also take into account the existence … of structural breaks and non-linear dynamics in unemployment. Finally, we examine whether CEECsu0092 unemployment …

This paper presents new evidence on the social returns to education within a macroeconomic growth regression framework … dynamic human capital spillovers: the human capital stock increases prospective economic growth. The empirical results are … growth and jobs. Finally, the paper discusses discrepancies between private and social returns to education. …

This paper investigates the average impact of government debt on per-capita GDP growth in twelve euro area countries … over a period of about 40 years starting in 1970. It finds a non-linear impact of debt on growth with a turning point …—beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a deleterious impact on long-term growth—at about 90-100% of GDP. Confidence …

The number of variables related to long-run economic growth is large compared with the number of countries. Bayesian … model averaging is often used to impose parsimony in the cross-country growth regression. The underlying prior is that many …. The positive relationship between measures of trade openness and growth is much stronger than found in the literature. …

stimulating and disciplining environment for large companies while at the same time facilitating the growth of young innovative …

general equilibrium model that integrates a theory of equilibrium unemployment into a monetary model with nominal price …

The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from … the euro area as a whole. This shows that the lagged impact of both output growth and real labour cost growth, together …