unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position …

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

paper quantifies to what extent structural trends and the reform pace affect employment growth under the new normal. Delays …

Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to … to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …

growth as well as employment protection legislation reduce the likelihood of an outward shift in the Beveridge curve. Our … 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 …

rise in the unemployment rate, by about 3 percentage points, and income inequality during the pandemic. Our results show …

Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment … variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates … by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … would, on average, lift female employment by 1 percent, while increasing male employment by 0.6 percent. Consequently such a …

three reforms have positive short-run and long-run effects on employment, wages, and output. The quantitative effects of the …) taken together increase employment by 1.6 percent, potential output by 1.5 percent, real hourly pre-tax wages in the low …

Raising South Africa’s low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP … find much scope for improving the design of key labor market institutions—including collective bargaining and employment …