Low rates of inflation have been recorded in recent years, despite a decline in the unemployment rate. This phenomenon …

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

macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual …-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset provides an interesting … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …

impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor …

Despite strong economic growth, a ""U""-curve unemployment phenomenon in Mauritius can be observed. Unemployment … growth of higher-skilled sectors coupled with rigidities in the labor market seem to account for the observed unemployment …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to …

More than a decade after the start of the transition process, unemployment rates remain in the double digits in a … number of Central and Eastern European countries. That unemployment rates have failed to decline, even in countries … influenced developments? Why have regional differences in unemployment persisted? The authors take an eclectic methodological …