Australia has experienced a varied track record on unemployment. For the third quarter of the 20th century unemployment … averaged 2.0 per cent. This is bracketed by average unemployment rates of 8.6 and 7.4 per cent in the second and fourth quarter … economy. Two simulation experiments are considered. In the first we study the effect of varying the unemployment benefit on …

This paper examines the prospects for Australia meeting the Governments target to bring unemployment down to 5 per cent … by the year 2000. Particular attention is paid to the effect of the business cycle on unemployment. …

The aim of this paper is to study unemployment and job creation in the GCC countries. Population growth rates in all …, unemployment could reach 40% for youths aged between 20 and 24, and higher for women. Creating appropriate job opportunities for … nationals, and reducing current unemployment, is a critical focus of GCC governments. …

of unemployment in Chile. To carry out this purpose, a model Logit Binomial was estimated using information of the Survey … unemployment risk. In this context, it is necessary the intervention of the authority across incentives or forcing to the people to …

We examine how unemployment schemes and liquidity constraints affect re-employment probabilities and unemployment … hazard models and assess what variables are important in determining unemployment duration. Our findings suggest that even … reduce unemployment duration but they are not relevant in Finland, suggesting that these aspects are not so important in …

I construct a matching model to explain the labor market transition between employment, unemployment and … in the layoff rate, and this results in an increase in the unemployment-to-population ratio. Finally, firing costs make …

Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten … Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende Beschäftigungskrise vor? Und in welchem Umfang hat das deutsche Sozial- und Wohlfahrtssystem zu … die Aufgabe einer Arbeitslosenversicherung die soziale Absicherung im Falle einer möglichen, temporären Arbeitslosigkeit …

met. I model monitoring in the optimal unemployment insurance framework of Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997), where job … government conditions the unemployment benefits. In the optimal monitoring scheme, endogenous sanctions and rewards, together … economy and find that the addition of optimal monitoring to the optimal unemployment insurance scheme decreases the variance …

Unemployment Accounts (UA) are mandatory individual saving accounts that can be used by governments as an alternative … to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system. I study a two tier UA-UI system where the unemployed withdraw from their … unemployment account until it is exhausted and then receive unemployment benefits. The hybrid policy provides insurance to workers …