the model’s failure to match the observed cyclical volatility of unemployment.. Job creation in the model is influenced by … are consistent with the evidence. Therefore explanations of the unemployment volatility puzzle have to preserve the … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …

procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …

in Kyrgyzstan, who cumulated a high risk of being unemployed, of remaining longer in unemployment, of being discouraged …This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working …

employment into unemployment and from unemployment into employment. We investigate different hypotheses about the sources of … gender gaps in unemployment rates. Although there are some countries in which there is essentially no gender gap in … unemployment, there are others in which the female unemployment rate is substantially above the male. Although it is easy to give …

This paper is an empirical analysis of unemployment patterns in the OECD countries from the 1960s to the 1990s, looking … at the Beveridge Curves, real wages as well as unemployment directly. Our results indicate the following. First, the … unemployment. Finally, broad movements in unemployment across the OECD can be explained by shifts in labour market institutions …

rise to power in 1933. Using data on public employment in the armed forces, public administrations and related professions … find that cities with higher National Socialist vote shares experienced a relative increase in public employment: for every … additional percentage point in the vote share, the number of public employment jobs increased by around 3.5 percent. When …

and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) strictness on one hand, and Unemployment Insurance …

on workplace closure and employment growth over the period 1997-2004. Unions prolonged the life of low-wage workplaces in … of union density on employment. …

it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on employment growth and financial performance are largely confined to …

new OECD project on the dynamics of employment (DynEmp) based on an innovative methodology using firm-level data (i …