characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …

detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …

unemployment reduce wellbeing; where the cost of inflation in terms of unemployment, hence the relative size of the weights in a … unemployment than inflation. Thus advocates and practioners of inflation only targeting are, and increasingly so, divorced from the … inflation targeting. Pure inflation targeting implicitly assumes a social loss welfare function dependent on only inflation. In …

This paper assesses the effects of the Colombian Unemployment Subsidy (US), which includes benefits as well as training … their unemployment rates. The study also finds a small though statistically significant positive effect on beneficiaries …

Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important … unemployment scarring consequences are relatively low, labor market regulations and labor market programs do not help to increase …

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …

Unemployment is a pressing problem in many countries in Latin America. Financial crises and increased globalization … increase job turnover and therefore the risk of unemployment. To protect workers, Chile implemented an innovative unemployment … job search behavior between workers who use unemployment benefits and those who do not. Search efforts were found to fall …

research using data from other countries, we find that increases in the local unemployment rates are associated with … significant reductions in mortality. Models of mortality by source indicate that the negative relationship between unemployment … elderly fluctuates with the unemployment rate suggests the possible importance of externalities associated with economic …