increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period … richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can capture the unemployment effects of growing variables such as … capital stock. After classifying the 17 Spanish regions into high and low unemployment groups using kernel and cluster …

explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …

Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring … in the three Latin American countries, but not in transition economies. It also finds evidence of extensive mobility …