In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to … underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and … also how skill formation or education affects unemployment among the remaining uneducated. We have developed a general …

employment gap under stagnation are primarily driven by fluctuations in underemployment instead of structural unemployment. Our … economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that fluctuations in the total …

that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …

We estimate the employment and labour force participation effects resulting from the abolition of the marital allowance … from the Greek LFS over the period 2008:Q1-2016:Q1 we do not find any differential change in the probability of employment …

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … employment, suggesting that non-traditional gender norms mediate on the employment gender gap mainly via motherhood …

connections on hiring probabilities and re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. We rely on rich matched employer …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women’s labor market statuses and their partners’ unemployment in …