We know from experience that weak economic growth increases the unemployment rate. In 1962 Okun proposed to measure … potential output in terms of unemployment gap. From this relation a direct link between increase in unemployment and output …

The strong rise in the unemployment rates of European countries in the 1980 has motivated time series studies aimed to …

This work estimates elasticity wage/long-term unemployment and checking which individuals groups are more affected by … unemployment hysteresis phenomenon, using Household Sample National Survey (PNAD) published by the Brazilian Bureau of Geography … was observed that men, whites and individuals with higher education levels are less affected by long-term unemployment …

that allows us to unveil the different dynamic behaviour of the relationship between the output gap and the unemployment … unemployment gap to the output gap is due to two main factors: i. the flows from the labour force to the outside of the labour … force are larger in Andalusia; ii. The higher share of the farm unemployment in Andalusia. …

This article presents empirical evidence about the relationship between job openings and unemployment through a … model show that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to job openings is statistically significant and positive. This …