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 global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book … supply, and labour force participation. He argues that the growth of unemployment and long-term unemployment is mainly due to … a lack of aggregated demand and not due to high unemployment benefits. Economics of the Labour Market shows that …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates … are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been …