both the vacancy- unemployment ratio and employment. We show that the standard version of the Mortensen-Pissarides matching …

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 …

We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming … that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of … unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour …

incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekers who come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to four years …With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates …

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 …

In this paper, the effects of alternatives to finance unemployment benefits on employment and wages are examined in a … model with search generated equilibrium unemployment. It is demonstrated that employment improves if a value--added tax is …

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