, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is …

The relation between growth and unemployment is being studied throughout a diverse set of contributions over the last … due to the importance of this relationship as a way to overcome the high unemployment rate that has been characterizing … describing the new theoretical mechanisms and empirical evidence regarding the relationship between growth and unemployment. A …

institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating … recommends the need for restoring confidence, transforming institutions(procedures), providing specialized assistance, acting …

political institutions and political rivalry on human capital accumulation and income inequality. Relating to the increasing … inequality. As regards the role of political institutions, our analysis suggests that the elasticities of human capital …

rising efficiency has been rising unemployment. Double-digit unemployment rates have now become a rule. Apart from the truly … disastrous labour market situation in several countries of former Yugoslavia, unemployment has recently acquired dramatic … improvement. And even more than in the rest of Europe, the CEECs' unemployment patterns display distinct regional, gender, age and …

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 … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

This paper develops an overlapping-generations model characterized by endogenous growth, unemployment, and pollution … unemployment benefits, and considers a replacement-ratio-neutral reform in whichthe environmental tax is devoted to cutting the … employees' rate of contribution to unemployment insurance. Under this reform, (i) the growth rate is increased, the unemployment …