We explore the response of employment (unemployment) skill differentials to skill-biased shifts in demand touched off … by the new and spreading technologies. We find that skill differentials in unemployment follow at least in part the same … differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

self-employment rate and the unemployment rate. It is also shown that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs …

While there has been considerable discussion of the adequacy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits as a form of … income replacement, there is little evidence on the other resources that the unemployed have to finance their unemployment … financial assets sufficient to finance roughly two-thirds of the income loss from an unemployment spell, but that there is …

Two key facts about European unemployment must be explained: the rise in unemployment since the 1960s, and the … heterogeneity of individual country experiences. While adverse shocks can potentially explain much of the rise in unemployment … institutions pre-date the rise in unemployment. Based on a panel of institutions and shocks for 20 OECD nations since 1960, we find …

insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …