European Unemployment

•  Boeri, Tito and Pietro Garibaldi (2005), "Are Labour Markets in the New Member States Sufficiently Flexible for EMU?" forthcoming on The Journal of Banking and Finance.

•  Konings, Jozef and Alan Patrick Murphy (2004), "Do Multinational Entreprises Relocate Employment fo Low Wage Regions? Evidence from European Multinationals." ECB Conference Paper.

•  Basile, Roberto and De Benedictis, Luca (2004), "Regional Unemployment and Productivity in Europe and the US", LLEE Working Document no. 8   

• Blanchard, Olivier and Thomas Philippon (2003), "The Decline of Rents, and the Rise and Fall of European Unemployment", mimeo MIT.

• Wouter J. Den Haan (2003), "Temporary Shocks and Unavoidable Transitions to a High-Unemployment Regime", ECB Working Paper 239

•  Driffill, John and Marcus Miller (2001), "No Credit for Transition: European institutions and German Unemployment", Working Paper Birbeck University.

• Fabiani, Silvia and Ricardo Mestre (2000), Alternative Measures of the NAIRU in the Euro Area:  Estimates and Assessment, ECB Working Paper No. 17

• IMF, (1999), Chronic Unemployment in the Euro area: Causes and Cures, World Economic Outlook, Chapter 4

Member countries...

• Ochel, Wolfgang: Decentralising Wage Bargaining in Germany – A Way to Increase Employment? , November 2003, CESifo Working Paper 1069.

• Pissarides, Christopher A. (2003) Unemployment in Britain: A European Success Story , CESifo Working Paper 981.

• Bentolila, Samuel / Jimeno, Juan F (2003) Spanish Unemployment: The End of the Wild Ride? , CESifo Working Paper 940.

• Holmlund, Bertil (2003), The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment , CESifo Working Paper 918.

• Bertola, Giuseppe, Garibaldi, Pietro: The Structure and History of Italian Unemployment , CESifo Working Paper 907.

 

Labor Market Institutions top

• Flinn, Christopher (2003), Minimum Wage Effects on Labor Market Outcomes under Search with Bargaining, mimeo NYU.

• Gersbach, Hans and Achim Schniewind (2001), Awareness of General Equilibirium Effects and Unemployment, IZA WP 394

Labor Market Reforms top

• Calmfors, L., A. Forslund and M. Hemstrom (2002), Does Active Labour Market Policy Work? Lessons form the Swedish experiences, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, Seminar Paper 700.