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 …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

Spanish unemployment, focusing on demonstrating its long memory and generating macro-economic models with autoregressive … vectors in which the unemployment variable is presumed to be non-stationary and co-integrated. Its consideration in this … suppose, the same as Skalin and Teräsvirta (2002), a behaviour for unemployment which is locally non-stationary in a globally …

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … factors to translate unobserved shocks to the labor market into observed cellspecific unemployment rates as well as bilateral …

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …

Differences in regional unemployment rates are often used to describe regional economic inequality. This paper asks … whether changes in regional unemployment differences in West Germany are persistent over time. Understanding the persistency … of regional unemployment differences helps us to asses how effective regional policy can be. While univariate tests …

unemployment. The public sector is decomposed into general government and an unfunded pension system with a tax benefit linkage … effects. They strengthen labor supply both in terms of job search intensity, leading to lower unemployment rates, and hours …