achievement of plausible target unemployment rates, disaggregated by age and gender. Second, we analyze the job creation needs … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …

the pandemic. We assess how the likelihood of the working-age population falling into the unemployment pool varies before …

. Traditionally, the unemployment rose sharply during previous economic recessions. Therefore, it seemed like a novelty when the … unemployment rate rose only insignificantly in a pandemic recession. We find that both the demand and supply side of the labour … increase in unemployment during a recession, the rate of utilization of workers’ time capacities fell, with expected impacts …

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi … causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main …