an economic crisis to isolate the impact of migration on local unemployment. The impact of the crisis on education … one of the main determinants of the unemployment increase and that remittances have a higher impact than the variation of … emigration flows. The low skilled bear the highest costs in terms of unemployment and wage decline. …

Jordan and Tunisia are two non-oil exporting MENA countries characterized by high unemployment rates and significant …. The results show that the global crisis worsened the unemployment situation by increasing labor supply in both countries …

recent years, and permitted unemployment figures to remain low and skill premia not to sink, despite the shift in skill … structure. We run a retrospective simulation, looking at how unemployment and wages would have reacted had skill biased …

institutions also influences economic growth and the ability of a country to attract trade and foreign direct investment …. Consequently, when institutions of FSU and sub-Saharan countries develop to the point they become attractive to traders and … commit credibly to increasing capacities of their state institutions with a view to supporting property-based rule of law and …

recipient's level of income or quality of institutions and policies; we find that short-impact aid causes growth, on average … with stronger institutions or longer life expectancies (better health). We also find a significant negative relationship …

In a simple theoretical framework, the quality of institutions affects individual’s investment decisions, and hence … income levels and distribution. When institutions deteriorates and inequalities increase, the incumbent undertakes … redistributive taxation to maintain political support. The quality of institutions and the extent of redistribution depend on the …

This paper studies the co-movements of unemployment and labor productivity growth for the U.S. economy. Measures of co …