estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between …

globe. A robust finding in these studies is the positive association between unemployment rates and the size of the … unemployment that features decreasing returns to unofficial activities and congestion effects in job searching, we conjecture a … long-run equilibrium relationship between unemployment and the size of the shadow economy. Our empirical model lends strong …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

achievement of plausible target unemployment rates, disaggregated by age and gender. Second, we analyze the job creation needs … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …

. -- Unemployment duration ; democracy ; education ; development ; World Values Survey … individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … system of governance are also shaped by the unemployment rate in countries with low levels of democracy. The results suggest …

US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms … suggested, while at the same time the majority of the world’s poor had benefited insufficiently from stronger economic growth … collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and … and to what extent different socio-economic groups were affected. -- automatic stabilisers ; unemployment protection ; tax …

Pacific islands 33.4% and 4 remaining Communist countries 21.8%. An increasing burden of taxation, high unemployment and low …