This paper estimates the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for 15 OECD economies from 1990 to … unemployment. Using Prais-winsten estimation correcting for panel-level heteroscedasticity a panel-specific first … implication is that deregulation is not a necessary policy tool in addressing the problem of structural unemployment. …

disparities. We confirm that the persistently high rate of unemployment is the result of not only excess labour supply but is also …

covering the period from 1991 to 2010. We find a negative effect of the unemployment rate on the divorce rate, pointing to a … characteristics that can vary by country, and/or over time. Results indicate that a one-percentage-point increase in the unemployment … possible non-parametric pattern, confirms a clearly negative relationship between unemployment and divorce in European …

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …

unemployment rate are mixed. This study analyzes the relationship between employment protection legislation measured by the OECD … Employment Protection Index and the unemployment rate between 2001 and 2008. After controlling country fixed effects, I find that … more stringent employment protection legislation may not be a significant factor for higher a unemployment rate. The …

topics: - Definitions and functions outplacement - The importance of human work - The impact of unemployment on active job …

employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment …