In June 2000 Colombia adopted a new definition of unemployment following the standars of the International Labour … Organisation (ILO). This change implied a reduction of the unemployment rate of about two (percentage) points. In this paper we … structural unemployment and its relationship to unemployment people´s educational profile; therefore, they challenge the …

individuals into three labour force states: employment, unemployment and in activity. However, the resulting statistics areknown …

sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would … in unemployment signifies a more accurate reflection of disguised unemployment that already existed in the mid-1990s …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment. …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …