This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple …

shocks. This wage flexibility is desirable as it reduces the risks of long-term unemployment building up. After accounting …

Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …

cases. These tools are illustrated with longitudinal data for Argentina in the 1995- 2002 period, which is well suited for …

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico …

unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. Wefind that this shock causes selection at both firm and …

European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …

unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …

Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are …), have very high unemployment and most of the rest have comparatively low unemployment. This variability is highly …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …