The increase in unemployment in the United Kingdom that accompanied the Great Recession has been conspicuous by its … rise in British unemployment. Unemployment duration has not increased to the levels seen in previous recessions, in … are not mirrored in the UK. In contrast, while long-term unemployment currently remains well below historical levels …

unemployment in the Great Depression and more generally in the 1920s and 1930s. The distinction between employment and unemployment … unemployment increases during the Great Depression. We find little general econometric evidence for the idea that movements in … product wages had strong influences on employment either during the period of rising unemployment associated with the …

This paper considers some of the implications of the increase in UK unemployment since the beginning of the Great … Recession. The major finding is that the sharp increase in unemployment and decrease in employment is largely concentrated on …

. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for 30 years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively subdued … through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment, allied …

This paper examines the impact of unemployment on migration. In a theoretical model, we show that unemployment, per se …, does not affect migration. Rather, migration only occurs when unemployment shocks force residents to update their … expectations of the area's unemployment rate. Once these expectations change, migration reallocates labor to bring the economy back …

subsidy. Quantitatively, however, the vacancy cost subsidy is more effective in lowering unemployment than the hiring subsidy …

Focusing on both hiring and firing margins, this paper revisits effects of fiscal expansion on unemployment. We provide … unemployment in the U.S. by using a structural VAR model. We then develop a DSGE model with search frictions where job separation … unemployment rates to a government spending shock. We also demonstrate that model's predictions are in contrast with earlier …

Causes of economic, legal and political problems and high rates of unemployment in the RH (Republic of Croatia) are a …, the RH will continue to stagnate and fall behind, and the unemployment rate shall reach a new maximum limit. Newest study …

estimate country-specific VARs relating GDP, unemployment, savings, and social spending. We find that social spending has a … negative effects on output are significant and in some cases large. Unemployment is the dominant channel through which social …