Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

continuing convergence of employment and unemployment patterns for men and women. However, some recent negative trends include a … rise in unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, a deteriorating youth labor market, and a stagnant gender earnings …

unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which succeeds at generating … countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …

I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …

estimates a simple model to capture the effects of technology, globalization, institutions and product demand effects on the … attenuate the polarizing impact of routinization and that differences or changes in wage-setting institutions play little role …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …