This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …

vacancies and decreases with unemployment. … explanatory unemployment variable in the Phillips relation is intuitively to be regarded as an indicator of labour scarcity … intermediate step between unemployment and wage inflation. Contributions by Kuh, Solow and Stiglitz in the late sixties follow this …

in his Nobel lecture? <p> In this paper inflation is introduced into a general equilibrium search unemployment model. We …How are inflation and unemployment related in the long run? Are they negatively correlated, as in the so-called naive …

search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a … plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterized by economic …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … Disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more …

to individual EU15 countries from 140 non-EU exporters, covering the period 1962–2006. We find that short duration is a …