increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

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 proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in … the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend … components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the …

unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …

, we study the implications of different inflation regimes on the racial unemployment gap. Higher trend inflation increases … facing exogenous differences in the job finding and separation rates. We use our setting to study the racial unemployment gap … two groups both in the level and volatility of unemployment. We show that the racial unemployment gap is counter …

chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation-unemployment …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial …. More prevalent ranking in Europe compared to the US - because of more rigid wage structures etc. - could potentially help … to explain the high and persistent European unemployment. …