the limitation of current unemployment and disability benefit schemes. The paper identifies possible strategies to …

The three-point VAT increase is part of a package in which unemployment payroll taxes will be reduced. Risks to the …

of moderate growth (about 1½–2 percent) and high unemployment, but policy action—especially that directed toward … reducing structural unemployment and raising productivity—could lead to much better outcomes. …

We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …

JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores … the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of … increases in unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions …