We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960 …-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host … unemployment; an increase equal to one percent of GDP reduces unemployment by 0.2 percentage point in the same year. The effect is …

This paper examines the intergenerational correlation in unemployment in Norway and, by use of the sibling … unemployment. Confirming existing evidence, I find a substantial intergenerational correlation in unemployment. Approximately half … measures of parental unemployment. …

rates of unemployment during their whole prime-age work career. Building on a unique combination of micro- and macro data …

’ transition rates from unemployment to employment.Based on Norwegian register data from the 1989-2002 period, we show that this … indicator,in contrast to the aggregate rate of unemployment, correlates well with an expost-calculated GDP-based business cycle … unemployment rate, both at an aggregate and a disaggregate level, and hence improve policy makers ability to assess current labour …

displacement. This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the long-run effects of parental unemployment on children exposed … children exposed to parental unemployment at ages 2 to 10 experience losses of 3 to 4 rank points in average earnings … experienced during childhood, as well as unemployment-induced moves to neighourhoods with less opportunity. …

We estimate the relationship between investment and unemployment over the time period 1960-2015 in 20 OECD countries …. While neoclassical growth theory typically assumes full employment – with no effect of investment on unemployment – we find …: when investment fell, unemployment increased. When the time period is broken down into two sub-periods to take account of …