available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates fromits flow steady state, as it does in … unemploymentvariation within countries. For Anglo-Saxon economies we find approximately a 15:85inflow/outflow split to unemployment …

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rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

the unemployment rates of natives. We use information on 13 local labor markets for the 1988-2008 period. The data are … indigenous workers. Also, there is evidence that: (i) medium skilled unemployment declines with immigration and (ii) labor force … drawn from the Greek Labor Force Survey. We address the endogeneity of immigrants’ location choices and measurement error by …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between welfare expenditure by government and unemployment … a statistically significant positive impact on unemployment outcomes (total unemployment, long-term unemployment and … youth unemployment). Among the four major components of national welfare expenditure, only income support and pension …

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the … country's trade partner. Unemployment benefits can alleviate the distortions in a country's labor market in some cases but not …