using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …

for immigrants than for natives: a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.61 and 0 …

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 …

-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

inflation. Among other things, the unemployment gap, which is the difference between unemployment rate and non …-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), is used to measure inflationary pressure from the labour market. This paper examines … revisional property of the NAIRU is also examined, as well as the forecast capacity of the unemployment gap with regard to wages …

by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …