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

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 …

In this paper, we focus on and examine the empirical evidence of non- linearity in aggregate Canadian unemployment … reject the null hypothesis of a linear structure for Canadian unemployment. …

The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment … insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …

distribution of unemployment rates across networks. We emphasize that wage dispersion arises endogenously as the consequence of the … necessary induce stickiness in unemployment dynamics. Our endogenous matching technology shows that the effects of networks on …

I investigate to what degree differences in retraining opportunities are responsible for the divergence of unemployment … becomes more difficult to find suitable retraining programs, enrollment rates, productivity and the unemployment rate decline …), I find that the generosity of unemployment benefits, the main driving force in their model, is not an important …