Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307657 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
KOF Working Papers No. 521
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich
Abstract: 
The average unemployment rate in Europe has been consistently higher than in the United States since 1980. The main explanation offered by a rather large economics literature focuses on the interaction between institutions and shocks. The contribution of this paper is twofold: to assess whether this prevailing explanation still holds when we take into account recent shocks (globalisation, China, etc.) and time-varying labour market institutions; and to offer a decomposition (using the Shapley-Owen approach) of the relative contributions of shocks, institutions and their interactions. While our results confirm the general validity of the Shocks and Institutions Hypothesis, we argue that it is more complex and nuanced than originally formulated.
Subjects: 
unemployment
labour market institutions
shocks
worker heterogeneity
gender
youth unemployment
JEL: 
E02
E24
J08
J21
J48
J64
F66
O43
P48
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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