This paper deals with trends and cycles of unemployment and labour-force participation. Empirical evidence on both … trends and cyclical movements in unemployment and participation is presented. Some of the mechanisms behind the observed … assessment of labour market slack of the observed interplay between unemployment and participation are discussed. The paper ends …

, including unemployment-related and disability schemes. Pooled cross-country time-series regressions show that increased …

Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less … which produced the extreme levels of unemployment, but more could have been done to unwind those legacies and other policies … and institutions have contributed to the dysfunction of the labour market. Notably, improvements in product market …

been met by in–flows of cross–border workers and, to a lesser extent, immigration. Unemployment has remained low compared … picture masks weaknesses in the design of labour market institutions and social transfers that reduce incentives to work for … provided by existing labour market institutions could make adjustment to changed economic prospects more difficult. The …

spanning the period 1996 to 2004. The effects of changes in the minimum wage on unemployment, formal-sector employment and the …