In June 2000 Colombia adopted a new definition of unemployment following the standars of the International Labour … Organisation (ILO). This change implied a reduction of the unemployment rate of about two (percentage) points. In this paper we … structural unemployment and its relationship to unemployment people´s educational profile; therefore, they challenge the …

individuals into three labour force states: employment, unemployment and in activity. However, the resulting statistics areknown …

sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would … in unemployment signifies a more accurate reflection of disguised unemployment that already existed in the mid-1990s …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment. …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …