The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy …--on the theories` ability to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behavior. The paper considers four types …

This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have …

This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …

This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …

This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have …