Unemployment remains a major economic and social problem in many developedeconomies. Thispaper provides theoretical and … empirical perspectives on the impact of labourmarket deregulation as a means of combatting unemployment and of enhancing … unemployment rates reduced to close to half of theirrespective post-1980 peaks. The labour market policies that contributed to …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …

We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …