policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's suggests, however, that real wage growth cannot account for the increase In … participation decisions is the level of uncertainty associated with expectations of future wages, and that high levels of …

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

frictions characterized by employment loss and employment opportunity arrival shocks. We argue that it is able to account for … shocks play a key role in allowing the model to match the persistence of the employment and out of the labor force states …

Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual … outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment rates according to its official … statistics. This paper calculates, for the first time, China's unemployment rate from 1988 to 2009 using a more reliable …

: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …