relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

examining the relationship between output and demand as mediated by changes in unemployment, or Okun's law. We also demonstrate …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …

role to cross-country differences in social unemployment insurance institutions that Prescott argues can be safely ignored …

unemployment and vacancies of the magnitude observed in US data in response to shocks to average labor productivity of plausible … response of unemployment and vacancies to a shock to average labor productivity. In light of these properties, cast in terms of …

wages and the local unemployment rate - within a number of occupations. It exploits the Bank of Italy's Household Survey and …