education in the labor force and when long-term unemployment is more pronounced. Policies which could facilitate labor market … policies, such as unemployment benefits, as well as labor taxation render matching significantly more difficult …

relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the … extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different …

unemployment. This paper examines several aspects of the adjustment,focusing on (i) evidence of increased labor market frictions …

This paper analyzes the determinants of high unemployment in South Africa by studying labor market dynamics using … on unemployment. The paper also explores the contribution of unemployment towards inequality. Reducing unemployment is … found to be important for reducing inequality - estimates suggest that a 10 percentage point reduction in unemployment …

unemployment. However, in many middle-income countries, a relatively large government coexists with persistently high unemployment … to long-run. Our findings do not provide any evidence that public employment reduces unemployment rate. The analysis in …

Serbia) are characterized by some of the highest unemployment and low employment rates in Europe. We analyze the poor labor …