-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation … between national unemployment rates and the incidence of the digital economy, proxied by the share of the adult population … correlation between unemployment and the digital economy, which is due to the existence of a negative bivariate correlation …

developing countries in the world economy and the emerging multi-polar growth setting. It evaluates the stability of the current …

and developing economies' increased financial integration with the rest of the world. As a result, country …

A puzzle in the recently stagnated economy of Jamaica is that high rates of unemployment have persisted even when real … unemployment have existed with increasing real wages. This is a sign of a badly functioning labor market. The cross …

This paper studies the incidence and determinants of episodes of drastic unemployment reduction, defined as swift …, substantial, and sustained declines in unemployment. Forty-three episodes are identified over a period of nearly three decades in … 94 rich, middle-income, and transition countries. Unemployment reductions often coincide with an acceleration of growth …