notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …

We study the role of uncertainty shocks in explaining unemployment dynamics, separating out the role of aggregate and … measure aggregate and sectoral uncertainty and compare their effects on the unemployment rate in a standard macroeconomic … vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We find that aggregate uncertainty leads to an immediate increase in unemployment, with …

Abstract The unemployment rate is the core indicator when researchers and policy-makers assess the level of … underemployment in an economy. However, accumulating evidence suggests that the unemployment rate is biased and underestimates the … disaggregated dataset from Germany, this study examines the dynamics in labor force participation that go beyond the unemployment …

given to the unemployment rate. While several of the most recent models of unemployment show that the aggregate unemployment … rate in Australia does indeed behave differently during periods of low and high unemployment, none can explain what drives … the unemployment rate to increase at such a rapid rate and what contributes to its much slower decrease. Another central …

Purpose – This paper contends that there is a positive relationship between current globalisation, unemployment … and “emic” perspective (authors’ viewpoint).Findings – A relationship between current globalisation, unemployment …, inequality and poverty should be investigated further. Unemployment increases levels of inequality and poverty within society …

four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment … of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail … sentences. For example, wage subsidies reduce unemployment, the crime rates of employed and unemployed workers, and improve …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …

distribution, wages, and unemployment. This comparison is important not only because it compares developing vs. developed country …