Unemployment has been at unacceptable levels for at least twenty-five years and is probably Australia’s most serious … economic and social problem. Emphasising the economics of the unemployment problem and focussing mainly on the labour market, a … historical approach was used which viewed unemployment as consisting of two parts: a cyclical component and an underlying …

Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the … shocks were large and widespread, and were particularly hard on older workers and women. Unemployment reached double digits …

Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this … between institutionally-differentiated groups of workers in China’s urban labor markets. An interesting hierarchy of returns …

China and India into the global markets. This rise has also deteriorated the situation of low-skilled workers in advanced …

, China and inflation, unemployment and placement responsibility, Japan and lifetime employment, placement as a marketing job …

Wechselverhältnis gilt als Geheimnis des dänischen Erfolges, Arbeitslosigkeit zu senken und Haushaltsüberschüsse zu generieren ohne … Instrumente einer aktivierenden Arbeitsmarktpolitik eingeführt, die in die Tradition eines umfassenden Systems sozialer Sicherung … labour market which helped to prevent major welfare cut backs while diminishing unemployment and producing a budget surplus …

four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment … of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail … sentences. For example, wage subsidies reduce unemployment, the crime rates of employed and unemployed workers, and improve …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …

distribution, wages, and unemployment. This comparison is important not only because it compares developing vs. developed country …