We document a strong negative link between self-employment and the rate of digital adoption by firms in developing and … emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we … build a general equilibrium search-and-matching model with endogenous labor force participation, self-employment, endogenous …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age …

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …

(literacy) skills is economically significant. Our estimates imply that a full year of non-employment is associated with skill …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and …

significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …