than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women?s lower probability … of exiting unemployment for a job explains the lion?s share of the gender gap in the unemployment rates in the Czech …

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative … dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender of …

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional … unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional …

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …

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 …

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … of the labor force. Second, it rationalizes several empirical works on the definition of unemployment in labor force … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …

selection policy can facilitate employment outcomes for new arrivals over the medium run. The results indicate that the … 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 …