The concept of the employment threshold plays an important role in the public discussion of unemployment. The …

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …

This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and … characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of output to unemployment is driven by idiosyncratic factors in both euro …

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …

Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in …

to unemployment dynamics in Australia is found to be much milder and substantially lower than that of monetary policy …We develop uncertainty indices for the United States and Australia based on freely accessible, real time Google Trends … significant contribution to unemployment dynamics by GTU shocks in the United States. Differently, the contribution of GTU shocks …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …