For a given set of labor market institutions, the rate of frictional unemployment depends on the evolution of the pool … of job-seekers. Unemployment rises with the growth rate of labor supply that is proportionate to the rate of population … growth. This suggests a trade-off between growth and unemployment: a faster growing economy has a higher unemployment rate …

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an … immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of … being self-employed by about 7 percent relative to an unconditional self-employment probability of about 10 percent. This …

redistribute income, despite its negative impact on unemployment. In the absence of commitment, firms anticipate the government … a reduction in the labor demand that generates unemployment. …

framework tries to capture the relationship between obesity and employment/unemployment by assuming that the fraction of obese …This paper attempts to investigate the relation among wages, unemployment, obesity and to identify public policies to … workers is a function of the ratio of vacant jobs to unemployment (labour market tightness). We argue that if obesity is …

) members of EU during the period 2000 to 2007 has contributed significantly to the decline in unemployment in these countries. …