cyclical fluctuations are typical for both nominal and real variables, e.g. inflation and unemployment. …

We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960 …-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host … unemployment; an increase equal to one percent of GDP reduces unemployment by 0.2 percentage point in the same year. The effect is …

This paper examines the intergenerational correlation in unemployment in Norway and, by use of the sibling … unemployment. Confirming existing evidence, I find a substantial intergenerational correlation in unemployment. Approximately half … measures of parental unemployment. …

declining unemployment are important to identify assimilation effects on immigrant earnings. We show that this is the case for … that local labour market conditions impact the rate of the earnings assimilation. We interpret the effect of unemployment …

by a negative trend in unemployment in the data. Relating immigrant and native period effects to local labor market … unemployment, we find that wage assimilation among lesser-educated immigrants is negligible and that the immigrant-native wage gap … is strongly increasing in unemployment. For highly educated immigrants, rates of wage assimilation during early years in …