may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is likely to occur if technological change is associated with an …

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

on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … skill. Huge youth unemployment, especially educated unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful … formation and unemployment among youth in India, focusing specially on educated unemployment. We find that current skill …

, and the choice is the result of a period of high mobility, unemployment and inactivity after the first entrance into the …-employment is a form of disguised unemployment or a suitable long term form of employment towards which gravitate the most …

This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market … decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are … examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when temporary shocks have persistent effects on unemployment; and (ii …

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy … - on the ability of these theories to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behaviour. The paper considers …

Unemployment in Europe is a worrying phenomenon not so much because it hits 18 million people, but because it almost … unemployment rate. Thus, understanding the Italian unemployment and finding effective solutions for it, is useful to understand and …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour …

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as … fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the … unemployment not only in the short run, but in the long run as well. The reason is that, in the presence of growing exogenous …