evidence of large heterogeneities among demographic groups. Interestingly, unemployment rates in levels across demographic … groups are not necessarily aligned with the sensitivity of these demographic groups’ (un)employment and participation rates …

unemployment that is in line with this empirical regularity and the findings for the other emerging markets and regional peers. We … European debt crisis. When investigating whether various expenditure components of GDP may cause different unemployment … improve forecasting of unemployment. …

, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …

labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …

-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers …, which are conditional on participation in training programs. We study how changes in unemployment benefits (UB) for … increasing training UB reduces unprotected unemployment and improves labor market outcomes through higher formal salaried …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …

the unemployment rate. I show that a simple frictionless business cycle model with heterogeneity and a simple form of on … employment growth. Worker flows are related to both employment growth and the unemployment rate, and quits and hires are …-the-job search, and quits beget hires to replace quitters. High unemployment crowds out quits, shortens the hiring chain, reduces the …