-kind benefits and the propensity to have an informal employment relationship in addition to monthly earnings, hourly wages …

analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction theory (CRT) of unemployment and argues that (i) a system of interactive …On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment … (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our …

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

undeclared wages in formal jobs. We also pursue the issues whether displaced workers experience more involuntary informal … informal employment as well as shares of undeclared wages in formal jobs. Our results also show that displacement entraps some …

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

stock in the labour market by applying the chain reaction theory of unemployment, and we find that capital stock is a major … fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission … single-equation unemployment rate models. Here we advocate a different approach. We directly estimate the effects of capital …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

the unemployment rate, which until now has been the main approach in the empirical literature …