Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important … problem in Bolivia's labor market, as the non-salaried market is always an alternative. While unemployment durations and … unemployment scarring consequences are relatively low, labor market regulations and labor market programs do not help to increase …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …

destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …

This paper analyses the correlation between employment duration, unemployment duration and general skill accumulation …, and both variables are negatively correlated with the duration of unemployment spells. With search frictions, general …

This paper analyzes the main determinants of structural unemployment. A discussion of the relative importance of … structural unemployment in total unemployment is done using NAIRU estimates for a panel of OECD countries. Then, NAIRU estimates … variability of unemployment rates by industry and occupation. The analysis focuses on the 1999-2008 period, characterized by …