failed to improve the responsiveness of real wages to unemployment; they were associated with a slower transition from …

This paper considers some of the implications of the increase in UK unemployment since the beginning of the Great … Recession. The major finding is that the sharp increase in unemployment and decrease in employment is largely concentrated on …

One of the main puzzles associated with the Great Recession has been the muted increase in recorded unemployment in the … unemployment, but also means that (i) significant numbers of workers are supplying fewer hours of work than they would like and (ii …

increase during 2012, though unemployment was stable. The paper also investigates the microeconomic determinants of …

pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …'s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …

pay and the local unemployment rate in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. …

A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper …