Unemployment in the 1930s was low in France by international standards, nevertheless there was a virulent drive to … expel immigrant workers as a means of limiting domestic unemployment. This involved not only the repatriation of the foreign …

This paper contributes to the debate on the causes of unemployment in interwar Germany. It applies the Layard …, combined with nominal inertia in the labour market, were important in explaining unemployment. In addition real wage pressures … due to the political processes of wage determination were a major influence on unemployment. Negative demand shocks appear …

British regions display persistent differences in both earnings and unemployment rates. A number of studies have found … that in general, regions that have high unemployment tend to have low wages. This runs contrary to a compensating … differentials argument that high wages should compensate for high unemployment. However, levels of labour mobility in Britain, and …

This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

on unemployment are examined. The model controls for macroeconomic shocks, and include the possibility of interactions …

, and in the growth of their labour forces. Whereas China - a labour-surplus economy par excellence despite unemployment … historically has been short of labour - is moving towards increased labour surplus in the form of open unemployment. The paper …

of wages to local unemployment. Examining this spatial relationship, we find that the elasticity of wages to local … unemployment rates in South Africa is -0.1, similar to that found in other countries, including the US and the UK. This is striking … because South Africa has a national unemployment rate of over 30%. We find that the wage curve elasticity persists over a much …