possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

This paper models regional earnings and unemployment in the ten regions of Great Britain between 1972 and 1995, paying … persistence in regional unemployment rates. We find no evidence of a negative effect of the overall unemployment rate on the …

This paper studies the role of unemployment in sterling’s inter-war experience. According to most narrative accounts …, the proximate cause of the 1931 sterling crisis was a high and rising unemployment rate that placed pressure on British … currency crises, highlights the conflict between the objective of low unemployment and defence of the currency and show that it …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

analysis has implications for the behavior of aggregate wages in the UK and for the relationship between aggregate unemployment … the unemployment/vacancies equations. In addition, lagged values of average house prices have a significant 'cost …

During the 1980s youth unemployment rates have persistently exceeded unemployment rates for adults, in Britain as in … other OECD countries. In the interwar period, youth unemployment rates in Britain were dramatically lower than those for … in the cyclical sensitivity of youth unemployment between the interwar and postwar periods, apparently attributable to …