seekers or those who have gone through long-periods of unemployment or inactivity, to gain some work experience and in the …

The recent financial crisis and subsequent recession have spurred great interest in the sources of unemployment … the model using Canadian data from 1991 to 2010. I find that, in the long run, unemployment fluctuations are mainly driven … per cent of unemployment fluctuations. I also find that inclusion of the recent financial crisis data in the estimation is …

. Significantly reducing unemployment and poverty can be achieved not solely through job generation but also by managing the quantity …

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector and human … ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. Key … low, underground employment alleviates unemployment, but the economy grows at lower rates. …

of immigration on labor market transitions out of unemployment. Using the basic monthly Current Population Survey from … out of unemployment. We employ a multinomial model to examine the effects of immigration on the transition out of … unemployment, using state-level immigration statistics. The results suggest that immigration does not affect the probabilities of …

temporary employment, to unemployment were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis. …

During the Great Recession of 2007, unemployment reached nearly 10 percent and the ratio of unemployment to open … extension in the length of time in which a claimant can collect unemployment insurance (UI) to 99 weeks, at an expense to date … search process. Parameter estimates of the structural model using a sample of unemployment spells from the National …

In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the unemployment dynamics generated by different structural … shocks. We show that the relative contribution of the job finding and separation rates to the unemployment dynamics depends … contribution of the two transition rates to the volatility of unemployment, whereas the search shock implies a disproportionate …