The rate at which unemployed workers find jobs exhibits a strong negative relationship with the level of unemployment … facts imply a positive correlation between unemployment and vacancy rates over long horizons. This observation contrasts … with the well known negative correlation between unemployment and vacancies at business-cycle frequencies and is consistent …

This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It … unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is persistence in long term unemployment, and that the employment … significant financial crisis and a collapse of the housing market bubble have had large increases in unemployment and long term …

In terms of output decline and increase in unemployment, the economic recession in Latvia that started during the 2008 …-09 financial crisis was one of the most severe in the world. Using both decomposition of the unemployment rate into structural and … cyclical components and Mortensen and Pissarides' search and matching approach, we demonstrate that the changes in unemployment …

, and time periods, separate metaregressions are estimated; one using estimates with the unemployment rate as the dependent … unemployment and economic growth, researchers should bear in mind that there are a number of methodological choices that have …

presents econometric evidence that unemployment displays hysteresis, and that wages are not responsive to changes in the …Spain has the most serious and persistent unemployment problem in Europe, with an unemployment rate that reached 24 ….6 percent in early 1994. This paper explores the characteristics of this unemployment problem, its causes, and provides a brief …

explain the ambiguity regarding the effects of immigration. A more generous unemployment insurance system for immigrants … increases both the unemployment rate and crime rates. An extended duration of incarceration and a deportation policy reduce …

has not been a good predictor of whether the unemployment rate at the end of the expansion following a shift was higher or …

public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically … productivity unbalance across regions, is responsible for up to 40% of the unemployment gap between the North and South. Policy … experiments suggest that reducing the size of public employment reduces unemployment in lower productive regions while allowing …