evidence is only starting to catch up. In particular, EPL is not robust as an indicator of overall unemployment, but previous …

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

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run ‡uctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in … force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for …. Nevertheless, the model explains between ~65% and ~95% of the variability in unemployment and inflation. For Italy, the rate of …

Linear relationships between inflation, unemployment, and labor force are obtained for two European countries - Austria … and France. The best fit models of inflation as a linear and lagged function of labor force change rate and unemployment … inflation for the next ten years. In France, inflation lags by four years behind labor force change and unemployment allowing …

This paper studies the spatial distribution of unemployment by gender, in the counties of Romania, in 2008.The Lorenz … curve and Gini index are used to identify a pattern of spatial concentration of unemployment, differentiated by gender …. Evaluation of gender differences in unemployment spatial concentration model shows significant differences. There is a greater …

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 …

years, accompanied by a steep rise in unemployment, which would be around 11.5% in 2010 in the euro area. However, labour … soften the impact of much higher unemployment levels on Europe's potential rate of growth in the future. …