States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for … Fund Database (IMF). Our results provide empirical evidence that the growth rates of GDP and unemployment cause migration …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

In this paper we examine unemployment rate dispersion across the (statistical) regions in the Melbourne metropolitan … area. We find that the level of dispersion is positively correlated with the unemployment rate in all the regions taken … together and that the ‘elasticity’ of dispersion with respect to the unemployment rate is unity, with the result that there is …

The high unemployment rate has been one of the most major argument in Turkish economy since 2002, in spite of the high …

mandated unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). To illuminate the forces in these models, we study how UI … higher layoff taxes suppress frictional unemployment in less turbulent times, prevails in the models with labour market … impossible to include generous government-supplied unemployment insurance in that model without getting the unrealistic result …

role to cross-country differences in social unemployment insurance institutions that Prescott argues can be safely ignored …