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 signficantly more difficult …

unemployment and debt. The paper illustrates in a downside scenario, how low potential growth and crisis legacies leave the euro …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to …

employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that … area countries. Within Canada, the results indicate that labor markets in Ontario and provinces further west are more …

hypotheses concerning the slow employment growth and rise in unemployment since 1990 are evaluated. The analysis indicates that a … large part of the recent rise in the unemployment rate may reflect an increase in the structural rather than the cyclical … component of unemployment. Various sources of labor market rigidities that may have contributed to the increase in structural …