recession of 1997-98. To address the unemployment challenge New Zealand needs to supplement existing job search assistance with … avoided. The April 2009 QSBO found that a net 36% of firms intend to cut staff numbers in the next three months. Unemployment … will be the worst we have faced since the 1991 global recession. With the peak in unemployment approaching, attention needs …

This paper estimates the non-increasing inflation rate of unemployment or NAIRU for New Zealand. A NAIRU that varies … around that). The results of this paper indicate that the NAIRU is a relevant concept and the unemployment gap should be one …

This paper provides an analysis of labour force participation, full and part-time work and unemployment, over the 1986 …

recession of 1997-98. To address the unemployment challenge New Zealand needs to supplement existing job search assistance with …

Unemployment in Germany strongly increased in 2005. Beside other influences a labor market reform that came into force … in 2005 (Hartz IV reform) was ascribed to redistribute hidden to open unemployment. Using different methodological … approaches and data sets this article analyses the scale of this change from hidden to open unemployment in West Germany. Yet …