European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …

imperfect competition. In equilibrium, unemployment emerges as the result of the market power exercised by insiders at the firm … countercyclical unemployment rate, in a way qualitatively consistent with US data. …

During the 1980s youth unemployment rates have persistently exceeded unemployment rates for adults, in Britain as in … other OECD countries. In the interwar period, youth unemployment rates in Britain were dramatically lower than those for … in the cyclical sensitivity of youth unemployment between the interwar and postwar periods, apparently attributable to …

.K by looking at the links between fathers' and sons' unemployment histories. Using an approach which takes account of both … incidence and intensity of son's unemployment we provide further evidence showing that parental background is an important …

In this paper we examine the long-term effects of the Restart unemployment program introduced in the U.K. in 1987. The … find that those who participated in Restart had significantly shorter unemployment durations than those excluded from the …. While there is little evidence of a long-term benefit for women in our sample, the unemployment rate among males in the …

We test the Barro-Gordon model extended to allow for persistence in unemployment. First, we build an index of central …

provide the steady state distributions of current technologies, unemployment, wages and job durations thus allowing the … unemployment of differently qualified workers. …