This paper analyzes the determinants of high unemployment in South Africa by studying labor market dynamics using …. Using stock-flow equations, counterfactual exercises are conducted to quantify the role of these different transition rates … on unemployment. The paper also explores the contribution of unemployment towards inequality. Reducing unemployment is …

programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into …

OpenStreetMap can significantly improve estimates of labor force participation and unemployment rates. Incorporating geospatial … information substantially increases the accuracy of male and female labor force participation and unemployment rates at the state … unemployment. Small area estimation using a nested error conditional random effect model also greatly improves municipal estimates …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment …

Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and … unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment …