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

emphasis on youth unemployment, relative to the circumstances of the population as a whole. The evidence since the seventies … the circumstances of young people cannot be fignored in considering the solutions to our unemployment problems. …

business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started …

We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU …

the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher … accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of … the effect of education on unemployment duration. Overall, the returns to education are estimated to be the highest in the …

This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The … theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of … government spending on public-sector jobs reduces unemployment, especially during recessions: the fiscal multiplier …

and the unemployment rate in U.S. data since 1929. Second, it compares a new model of the economy developed in recent …