Conventional measures of unemployment do not capture all dimensions of joblessness. A case in point is underemployment … among employed workers, also frequently referred to as parttime unemployment. Workers in this category are employed during a … survey week but are unable to work as many hours as they wish. An ILO-resolution from 1998 defines underemployment as …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … exp lain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

I explore the effects of a preference for fairness in the division of housework between two spouses in two different …

,the effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience …