to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

. In labor markets with high unemployment, such employment changes may have significant net efficiency benefits, which …

This paper considers employment growth and unemployment from 1990-2010 in a cross-section of cities in light of … unemployment rates in 83 central cities in the United States. Change in educational attainment over time is suggestive of causing … higher job growth and lower unemployment. The implication is that initiatives to attract and retain college …

workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such …

and the introduction of new mechanisms to help Americans cope with job loss and protracted unemployment. The particular …

privatization and unemployment in postcommunist countries, showing that there is little support for the proposed mechanism by which …