employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is currently among the highest in the world. While … the proximate cause of high unemployment is that prevailing wages levels are too high, the deeper cause lies elsewhere …. High unemployment and low growth are both ultimately the result of the shrinkage of the non-mineral tradable sector since …

We document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. We describe the likely causes of … this increase and analyze whether the increase in unemployment is due to structural changes in the economy (resulting in a … new equilibrium unemployment rate) or to negative shocks (that temporarily have increased unemployment). We conclude the …

exertion and food intake -- and the underlying causes of obesity -- childhood and adult poverty, depression, and attitudes …

informal firm and self-employment, but mixed evidence of effects on unemployment. Hours worked decreased in response to trade …

conditions. A one percentage point increase in unemployment is associated with an increase in the after-tax income poverty rate …We examine the relationship between the business cycle and poverty for the period from 1960 to 2008 using income data … relationship between macroeconomic conditions and poverty is of particular interest given recent changes in anti-poverty policies …

earnings, unemployment, and inequality on poverty in the boom. I find that the tight labor market reduced poverty substantively … poverty population. Moreover, the level of the tide needed to improve the conditions of the less advantaged is a 4 …-5% unemployment rate, not the 6-6.5% unemployment once viewed as the NAIRU …

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies with calibrated … parameters which only differ by the degree of unemployment insurance and assume that they are hit by a common technological shock …

unemployment. The sample of approximately 15,000 observations is drawn from the 1988 Alcohol Survey of the National Health …