Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …

2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …

impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

Health Survey data from ten countries. We find that periods of relative high unemployment are associated with lower fertility … postpone and even reduce childbearing in response to downturns. This behavior is mainly associated to increasing unemployment … periods of unemployment may be good to have children because opportunity costs are lower, maternity is reduced or postponed …

Does a country?s level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of …

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous …

, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier …