Unemployment in the OECD Since the 1960s. What Do We Know

By Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, W. Ochel. 2005

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Social Insurance as a Collective Resource: Unemployment Benefits, Job Insecurity and Subjective Well-being in a Comparative Perspective (2010, background): “Such benefits must be financed through tax revenues, and they might also affect unemployment levels (Nickell et al. 2005).”
Institutions versus market forces: Explaining the employment insecurity of European individuals during (the beginning of) the financial crisis (2011, background): “Several empirical studies indeed show that extensive use of ALMPs is associated with lower unemployment rates and shorter periods of unemployment (Nickell et al., 2005).”
Employment Outcomes and the Interaction between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements? (2007, neutral): “26To our knowledge, the only dynamic employment model that finds some evidence of a negative effect of the tax wedge is Nickell et al. (2005).”
Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability (2009, positive): “1 Institutional Regimes The empirical literature has identified the generosity of unemployment insurance as a major factor affecting unemployment rates in Europe (Nickell et al., 2005). Unemployment insurance is the main scheme where eligibility is based upon previous employment and contribution his”
Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions (2005, methodology): “…protection (EPI), replacement ratios and duration of unemployment benefits (BR, BD), (net) union density (UDNET) and degree of coordination of the wage bargain (COI) (Blanchard and Wolfers, 2000; Katz and Autor, 1999; Belot and Van Ours, 2004; Layard and Nickell, 1999; Nickell et al., 2005).”
OECD demand regimes (1960-2000) (2006, background): “7 Rowthorn (1995) finds (for ten OECD countries during 1960–92) that each 1 percent extra growth in capital stock is associated with between 0.”
The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth (2012, neutral): “There is a consensus view that this occurred because policies adopted to fight unemployment had adverse effects on employment per capita (see Nickell, Nunziata, and Ochel 2005).”
The Determinants of Unemployment across OECD Countries (2007, background): “© OECD 2006 conclude that direct effects clearly dominate (Nickell et al., 2005; Nunziata, 2002).”
The unemployment impact of immigration in OECD countries (2011, background): “Since Blanchard and Wolfers (2000), the role of macro-economic shocks, and their interactions with institutions as determinants of unemployment has been central in the empirical literature (e.g. Nickell et al. 2005; Bassanini and Duval, 2006).”
Employment Effects of Product and Labour Market Reforms: Are There Synergies? (2012, positive): “Consistent with earlier results (Scarpetta, 1996; Nickell et al., 2005), the persistence significantly increases with the stringency of labour market regulation.”
Effective Active Labor Market Policies (2004, positive): “In this setting fixed country effects are used in for example Belot and Van Ours (2001, 2004) and Nickell et al. (2002).”
Income inequality as a cause of the Great Recession?: A survey of current debates (2012, background): “38 There is substantial cross-country evidence suggesting that higher long-term real interest rates lead to higher medium-term unemployment (e.g. Fitoussi et al., 2000; Nickell et al., 2005; Bassanini and Duval, 2006; Baccaro and Rei, 2007).”
Employment Regulations Through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them? (2004, neutral): “We add combinations of variables measuring the strictness of regular and temporary employment regulations.”