This paper examines the recent evolution of unemployment and inactivity in Brazilian metropolitan areas. We analyze the … inactivity: it is inversely related to male inactivity and directly related to female inactivity. Moreover, the observed patterns … among poor and non-poor women are extremely different – poor women have higher inactivity rates than non-poor women …

The regional unemployment disparities are a common feature of the labor market in many EU countries. Nowadays, not only …, even if the regional disparities in employment and unemployment in EU states have diminished at the beginning of the XXIst … causes that determined the regional unemployment disparities in EU might be the level and the power of unions, the labor …

high rates of unemployment. FDI are widely recognized for their contribution on host country economic growth, therefore … foreign capital inflows are considered a viable solution to reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth. The aim of the … conducted on the situation of Romania and emphasizes the negative relationship between FDI and unemployment. …

, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier … jobs because no major reforms to labor market institutions were recently implemented in the region. Instead, the main cause …

Unemployment rates in the United States have been slow to fall over the last couple of years despite a modest growth in … unemployment? Bell and Blanchflower suggest that one factor is the extent to which workers already employed prefer to work more …

The recent proliferation of state and local universities and colleges compounded with the high unemployment rate among …