As unemployment rates have reached historical lows across many OECD countries, it is important to focus on the … inactivity across the OECD, focusing on places and people. The paper demonstrates the importance of moving beyond national … averages to understand which regions and cities have higher levels of economic inactivity. It then looks at regional economic …

the closing of existing firms, to the dramatic decline of total employment and increase of the unemployment rate. We also …

This paper investigates the role of policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the global …

model that features endogenous producer entry, equilibrium unemployment and costly job creation and destruction. Unlike in …, but some of them -- such as job protection reforms -- are found to increase unemployment temporarily. Implementing a broad …

productivity gaps, except in the United States where it essentially resulted from a large increase in the unemployment gap. As … States, the large unemployment gap could also keep wage inflation under pressure despite a flattening Phillips curve. These …