social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …

on problems related to youth employment and unemployment. This paper aims to provide a contribution to debate on the … particular, on the initiative of Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, the Youth Employment Network (YEN) was established. This is a …

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 … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and …

The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status … and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences …

expected returns on the labor market. One of the key issues is the increasing rate of graduates unemployed. Does this mean that … contribution of the public sector to employment and the nature of qualifications required by public sector jobs. The public sector …

data from the past three inter-censal periods (covering 1986-2001). We focus on the relationship between employment growth … cycle. We find that people move to areas of high employment growth, but that the probability of leaving a region is less …

differences in cross- country unemployment rates and test its validity by using panel data from 19 countries over the 1970 …, where the government comes to the relief of the unemployed by increasing the welfare benefits per man. From this model, we … extract an unemployment rate equation. The results that emerge from the empirical analysis sug-gest that social benefits per …