On June 2000 the Colombian National Department of Statistics (DANE) adopted a new definition to measure unemployment … the unemployment rate of about two percentual points. In this document we contrast the Colombian experience with another … according to the old and new definition of unemployment (employed, unemployed and out of the labour force) using the EM …

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the wage, price and unemployment dynamics that have taken place in … unemployment, slowdown in productivity growth, higher interest rates, and loss of competitiveness. On the other hand, the access to …

, proxied by their respective unemployment rates, on the labor market of Colombian cities with high migration tradition. These … 2011 for urban areas in Colombia and a differences-in-differences approach we find that unemployment rates of those … high and moderate migration tradition. At a second stage we provide evidence that unemployment rates of those countries …

risk dimension of unemployment adds on the study of issues such as its typology (frictional, structural and cyclical …), active-search methods and vulnerability to unemployment. On this sense, the incidence rate of unemployment is a composed … indicator which combines both the level of unemployment and the persistence of it (its duration). An analytical decomposition of …

The recent recession has generated a tremendous increase in unemployment rates in Spain. In this paper we use a very … rich repeated cross-section dataset on workers’ job conditions, together with regional unemployment rates, to investigate … whether peers’ unemployment affects individuals’ job satisfaction. We find that, once perceived job stability is controlled …