simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage … different effects in the two different situations. Interestingly, urban subsidy policies reduces urban unemployment in both of … the two cases, where as rural subsidy policy intensifies the problem of unemployment when urban informal sector is related …

South Africans unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications …. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to … unemployment and the duration of unemployment are examined. A probit model of the determinants of unemployment is estimated: it …

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

-sections for the years 1990, 1996 and 2000 from World Values Surveys. An unprecedented increase in the national unemployment rate …This paper explores the connection between unemployment and subjective well-being in Finland by using cross … (from 3 to 17 per cent) did not produce a drop in the mean level of subjective well-being. Experiencing unemployment …

where unemployment spell and accepted job spell durations are stochastically related through reemploymkent earnings. The … distribution of both reemployment earnings and accepted job durations are analyzed jointly with completed unemployment duration …

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but …

. Amongst the counterfactual implications are very low volatility of tightness, procyclical unemployment, and a positively …

The divergence of unemployment rates between the U.S. and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital … an appealing and novel explanation for the divergence of unemployment rates across economies that are hit by the very …, we challenge the conventional wisdom that high European unemployment is the result of institutional rigidities by …