The Spanish labor market is not working: the unemployment rate is structurally very high; wages are not very responsive … to labor market conditions, causing a high cyclicality of unemployment; and the labor market is highly dual. Compared … bringing the unemployment rate closer to the EU15 average. The key reform needed to reduce the share of temporary workers is …

percent increase in OECD unemployment, even after controlling for declines in OECD consumption and output gaps. Arrivals to …

The Great Recession pushed Japan’s unemployment rate to historic highs, but the increase has been small by …

monetary and other costs of unemployment on the unemployed themselves, while simultaneously estimating the effects of local … living in areas of high unemployment. Most importantly, we are able to use the large sample size and variety of questions in … contradictory results on the size and nature of the spillover effects of unemployment on subjective well-being. At the population …

This paper investigates how unemployment persistence affects the various proposals advanced as solutions to the problem … of inflation bias (namely delegation, contracts and reputation). First, the contract solution is extended to cover the … delegation of policy to a conservative Central Banker still proves attractive in a setting where unemployment persists; but the …

.S. male unemployment is provided. …

that a procyclical relationship between mortality rates and unemployment rates has already been well established in the U ….S. literature. Using a fixed effects model and provincial data over the period 1977--â€2009, we estimate the effect of unemployment … unemployment rate lowers the predicted mortality rate of individuals in their 30s by nearly 2 percent. In contrast to the U.S. data …

crises and global economic downturns, whereas very high unemployment benefits were associated with stronger reductions in …