evaluate the effects of an increasing low-wage sector on unemployment, the concept of the non-accelerating inflation rate of … unemployment (NAIRU) is used. In a first step, the unobservable, exogenous NAIRU is estimated for Germany in a state space setting …The creation of jobs in the low-pay sector is considered to be an approach to reduce unemployment, especially with …

satisfaction of European citizens is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment benefit payments … nearly neutralize each other. -- unemployment benefit ; employment protection ; macroeconomic uncertainty ; cost …

We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …

do not lead to higher downward wage flexibility and lower unemployment. However, higher employment protection …

This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …-productivity "trap," through the attrition of skills and work habits. We develop and calibrate a model along these lines for East Germany …

the economic shock and predict layoffs and unemployment in the second quarter of 2020. The analysis allows for the … unemployment due to the pandemic vary throughout New England, and such adverse labor market effects tend to be somewhat smaller in … the region than in the country as a whole. Additionally, official estimates of unemployment from available second …

This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have … persistence versus relatively high microeconomic labor market flow numbers. We calibrate the model for East Germany and examine …

case of Germany. A Job Guarantee's impact on inflation depends on excess production capacities of economic sectors as well …As a bottom-up approach, a Job Guarantee policy can tackle the issue of unemployment on the macroeconomic … inflationary pressure is no major obstacle. Strengthening workers' bargaining power in Germany through a Job Guarantee policy could …

Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour … market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards … problem of being without a "real" job in the longer run. To better grasp this problem of repeated unemployment we analyse …