that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual?s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a … Canadian and Swedish men. It is found that parental use of UI shortens the time to a first UI claim in Canada, but not in …

increase the probability of re-employment following unemployment. …

unemployment. In addition, allowance is also made to accommodate the ?stayer? phenomenon in the state of employment. All these were …

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment …

Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

This study examines individuals? unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals? unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …