market remain severe. Unemployment duration is still extremely high, and many have withdrawn from the labour market … high long-term unemployment and weak labour market participation could evolve into structural problems. Greater emphasis …

We examine the dynamic phenomenon of unemployment as a constantly changing inventory of unemployed individuals. We … unemployment. Multicointegration, introduced by Granger and Lee (1989), offers a natural way to model the level of unemployment as … an inventory. We find that there is multicointegration between inflows into and outflows from unemployment and the level …

This paper serves to document and analyze the employment and the labor market changes in urban China since the late … 1980s. High and sustained GDP growth rates in China have paradoxically been accompanied by increasing unemployment rates … the labor force and employment opportunities, and the impacts of education and party membership have increased over time …

that it was not. However, there is considerable variation across countries. Generally, the effect of growth on employment … magnifies in more flexible labor markets. Yet even under tight labor regulation, economic growth affects employment, especially … in its composition. Agricultural employment moves counter-cyclically, as opposed to nonagricultural employment. The …

growth and inflation contributes positively to Thailand banks' profitability, while per capita GDP has a negative impact. …

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced …

High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust … respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits …

, or of central bank conservativeness are associated with lower unemployment and inflation. However the forward shifting of … by governments concerned with the costs of inflation and unemployment, as well as with redistribution to particular … changes in either labor taxes or in unemployment benefits to labors costs is larger the higher are those institutional …