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 …

sequence of survey results is suggestive, at least at face value, of a sizeable decline in the Indigenous unemployment rate … long-term trends. The key finding of significant decline in unemployment rates since 1998 resonates with an analysis of … decline in Indigenous unemployment has formed part of the general labour market trend appears unlikely. Also, the …

The high rates of youth unemployment experienced in a number of OECD economies has raised concerns about the effect of … the effects of unemployment on subsequent hourly and weekly earnings. The estimates suggest that, when unobserved … heterogeneity is taken into account, it is only long histories of unemployment which have a negative effect on hourly wages. On the …

with a loud fanfare, it was buried quietly. Did Working Nation labour market programs lead to a fall in unemployment and a … fall in long term unemployment? This paper attempts to evaluate its success using simple econometric methods on … hoping that its industrial relations legislation will lead to a miraculous solution to the problem of unemployment and long …

Workers with more education have historically experienced lower unemployment rates than workers with less education. An … analysis of recent data, however, indicates that the difference in unemployment rates by educational attainment appears to be … unemployment with the increase in unemployment increasingly smaller the more schooling received. Although the percentage point …

Incluye bibliografía ; This paper examines the effects of transitory skill mismatch in a matching model with … implications for the set of potential equilibria, the unemployment rates of the different types of workers, the degree of wage …

theoretical results are twofold. First, unemployment is lower under firm-level bargaining Second, introducing efficient opting …-out of sector-level agreements suffices to bring unemployment down to its level under decentralized bargaining. For an … archetypical contintental European calibration, we find that the unemployment rate is about 5 percentage points lower under frm …

By how much do employed households reduce their consumption when the aggregate unemployment rate rises? In Spain during … the Great Recession a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate was related to a strong drop in household … of their expectations on future income growth rates: the shadow of unemployment. Using consumption panel data that …