remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem to give increasing importance to the more social aspects of jobs …: useful and helpful jobs. The central finding of the paper is that, following a substantial fall between 1989 and 1997 … than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as …

In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … steady-state unemployment, but also slow down the transitional dynamics. We then provide an empirical illustration based on a … the persistence of unemployment. …

political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on … alternative institutional options: the degree of labour market flexibility and the intensity of redistribution. We show that the … fragilized by the process of globalization. The model generates results concerning the macroeconomic equilibrium employment level …

to get better life conditions, alternative activities to paid jobs and idleness entailed by the labour saving … enduring waste of human resources caused by mass unemployment, growth has reached a new stage. Economics needs to be provided …

This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased … the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job …

This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on … groups of unemployed individuals. The first results, obtained from the analysis of the unemployment dynamics do not enable us …

developed countries for its impact on employment, wages and the welfare state, is not an issue at stake in Thailand for the … revolution and knowledge will impact Thailand in the near future because they are shaping a new international division of labour … ( ), the so-called “cognitive division of labour”, alongside the traditional international division of labour, sometimes pinned …

role of occasional jobs during a spell of unemployment and, in this context, the influence of the received unemployment … long-term data from the unemployed register held by ANPE (National Employment Bureau). The present analysis conducted using … additional information about unemployment benefits received by the unemployed from UNEDIC (Unemployment Benefits Office). …

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 … market variables (labour market regulation, union density, coordination in wage bargaining) to unemployment are a ffected by … OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel Vector AutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour …