in East Germany after unification, the existence of unemployment traps, their influence on labor market persistence and …

policies for the welfare state are analysed: Unemployment accounts, employment subsidies and flexicurity. Finally, a new …

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

, state agencies, the United States' unemployment rate, microchips and the unemployment rate in Japan and Malaysia, depressed …

in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … from non-participation. Narrowing of the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a …

labor markets. It also demonstrates that a positive rate of unemployment can exist even in the absence of matching frictions …, providing unemployment insurance, or subsidizing pre-marital investment. …