across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those currently out of the labor force (OLF) with recent employment, 10% among …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is 'tight' because unemployment … rates are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn't been since …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences … ; unemployment ; macroeconomic policy ; labour market policy …

across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those currently out of the labor force (OLF) with recent employment, 10% among …

Spain has the most serious and persistent unemployment problem in Europe, with an unemployment rate that reached 24 ….6 percent in early 1994. This paper explores the characteristics of this unemployment problem, its causes, and provides a brief … adjust. The effects of generous unemployment benefits and the large underground economy may explain 6-12 percentage points of …

across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those currently out of the labor force (OLF) with recent employment, 10% among …

Of the recent economic developments in Switzerland, the increased unemployment level deserves special attention. In the … 1990s Switzerland's long tradition of low (almost nonexistent) unemployment was broken. Although still below the levels … experienced in most industrialized countries, Switzerland's recent higher unemployment rate has caused speculation about the …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates … are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since …

unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position …