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 …

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

' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about … potential migrants are only present in Ghana and Egypt. The differences in intentions by age and sex are also quite noteworthy … Ghana and Egypt. The network effects of potential migrants turn out to be less important than one might expect from actual …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it …