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 …

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …

rates are consistent with weakly increasing returns in matching. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment …

received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …