immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women?s unemployment rates are driven …

education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and … literacy and numeracy on participation or unemployment. The direct and total effects of experience are the same. The findings …

outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population ratios fell, particularly among males; unemployment and welfare use …

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment. …

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others … the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in … countries where unemployment remained high. …

This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using … unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labor market reform. We find that the relative probability of leaving … unemployment for the short-term unemployed compared to the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s. …