The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a … live up to expectations. The level and duration of unemployment increased substantially in the downturn and the growth of …

results are contrasted with those from a comparable sample from the US from 1977-1988. 1) Fear of unemployment substantially … upwards than downwards.3) The unemployment elasticity of pay averages -0.1 in the UK and apparently zero in the US.4) Wages …

laws, permanent unemployment subsidies, firing costs, etc. Such policies create incentives to develop and adopt labor …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

contagion across sovereign bonds between Argentina and Mexico. The estimates of the simultaneous parameters are relatively to …

large devaluation episodes: Argentina (2001), Brazil (1999), Korea (1997), Mexico (1994), and Thailand (1997). We conduct a … detailed analysis of the Argentina case using disaggregated CPI data, data from our own survey of prices in Buenos Aires, and …