The unemployment rate in Greece rose from a mere 2.2% in the 1970s to 6.4% in the 1980s and 10% approximately in the … mid-1990s. Currently, it gravitates around that level. In this paper we present the stylized facts of unemployment in …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences … ; unemployment ; macroeconomic policy ; labour market policy …

unemployment. Using a matching function approach, the author finds that such a shock implies an unemployment rate of no more than 7 ….1 percent, much below the actual unemployment rate during the past two years. Hence, the recent patterns in unemployment and …

year time horizon, are in a statistical sense close to invisible with respect to employment and unemployment stocks, and … likely any period at all, of unemployment. Our results should not be taken to mean that economic policy reform is costless to …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

In the U.S., the cross-state differences in unemployment rates are large - for instance, large compared to variations … in the national unemployment rate over time. At the same time, there is considerable labor mobility within the U.S.; in … fact, enough that, if migration arbitrages differences in unemployment, one might expect very low cross-state differences …

In this Manifesto, we make a set of proposals to fight unemployment in the EU. We believe that the European … unemployment problem needs to be attacked on two fronts: through a broad spectrum of supply-side policies and the demand management …

In this Manifesto, we make a set of proposals to fight unemployment in the EU. We believe that the European … unemployment problem needs to be attacked on two fronts: through a broad spectrum of supply-side policies and the demand management …