objectives are to: describe the main features of the evolution and distribution of unemployment; present information on labour …This paper provides an overview of the main features of unemployment in Australia, and its consequences. Its main … market outcomes underlying the changes in unemployment - with the aim of providing some insights into the nature of …

This paper investigates the implications of budgetary policies for consumption and economic growth. We present a model … a rise in government debt, financed by lump-sum taxes, increases the share of private consumption to national income and … reduces the long-run growth rate. We also show that a rise in government consumption financed by lump-sum taxes reduces both …

This study examines the determinants of the employment status of Indigenous Australians using data from the 1994 …

natural rate of unemployment. In addition, because of differential inflation across countries, real exchange rates become …

We extend the `rational-partisan' model of inflation to allow for the effects of unemployment persistence on the … to the failure of political parties to precommit to price stability, in the light of unemployment persistence. Elections … are associated with higher inflation, with the exception of the Thatcher period. There is no evidence that the Labour …

recent differential unemployment persistence in our sample of countries: first, sluggishness in labour demand, and second …In this paper we present an investigation of unemployment persistence in Japan, the United States and fourteen European … economies. We concentrate on the sources of slow adjustment in the labour market, such as sluggishness in labour demand and …

We extend the `rational partisan model' of inflation and unemployment by introducing inflation and unemployment … stability. The greater aversion of `socialists' to unemployment results in an inflation rate which is higher by five percentage … points than under the more anti-inflationary `conservatives'. Unemployment seems to be independent of the identity of the …

Implementation of microeconomic reform is likely to disturb the existing allocation of labour between production … activities, and hence to initiate a process of adjustment in the labour market. An important aspect of this adjustment process …