procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …

I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …

consequence of this distortion is the coming about of wait unemployment, i.e., unemployed queuing for high-paid jobs. Employment …

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

among firms affects simultaneously growth and unemployment. On the one hand, an increase of the elasticity of substitution …

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …