raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected … duration of post-unemployment job matches. On the other hand, an increase in skill mismatch in the aggregate production … function lowers the level of unemployment in an economy with high unemployment benefits. The third chapter empirically …

My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment … high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor market hinders workers from finding a suitable match. I focus on …-skill unemployment dynamics. I capture the across-skill search externalities and spillover effects that arise when low- and high …

in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … from non-participation. Narrowing of the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a …

recession, showed a substantial decrease during the 1997-2007 expansion and then a sharp increase during the recent recession …

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. …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facingthe UK and other governments, as … economy, arguingthat it is clear that the recession commenced in the 2nd quarter of 2008. It then examineswhether this … recession is substantively different from past downturns in the UK andargues that, although the extreme rationing up of credit …

To assess the impact of the recession on the financial performances of the lodging industry, this study examines sample … firms’ financial ratios in 2006, the year immediately prior to the recession, to those in 2008, the year during which the … recession was in full swing. The findings of this study indicate that both non-gaming hotels and casino hotels experienced …

percentage of U.S. GDP (VA%GDP), national U.S. unemployment rates (UNEMP), and periods of recession (PROX) on entrepreneurship … statistically significant in six of the nine industry models and positive in five of the six. National U.S. unemployment rates … significant and negative in three of nine industries. Finally, periods of economic recession, measured by a proxy variable, only …