appears to be the erosion of the Ghent system, due to the emergence of an independent UI fund that provides unemployment …

If distortions in the labour market lead to inefficiently high unemployment, and policy makers cannot enter into a … may exist in public unemployment insurance policy. I study a model in which trade unions, who set wages, interact with a … policy maker, who decides on the level of unemployment benefits and taxes. The policy maker is assumed to have the same …

theory that predicts unions to increase wages and reduce labour demand, leading to higher unemployment, but they also …

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …

affecting UK labour market conditions. When the real exchange rate is undervalued, short-run unemployment falls as firms respond … to an improvement in domestic competitiveness by increasing their demand for labour. The unemployment response to the … reflects monetary policy considerations, our results imply that unemployment can be targeted by economic policy. Our results …

simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage … different effects in the two different situations. Interestingly, urban subsidy policies reduces urban unemployment in both of … the two cases, where as rural subsidy policy intensifies the problem of unemployment when urban informal sector is related …