conditions between states, although permanent (or very persistent) differences between state unemployment rates remain. We also …

unemployment rates. This paper investigates why this might be the case, whether this is a recent phenomenon, and whether declining … in the Australian unemployment rate over the past three decades. We find that relative demand shifts towards skilled … labour are not an important determinant of the increase in overall unemployment. The shift in demand towards skilled labour …

This paper concerns optimal redistributive income taxation and provision of a public input good in a two-type model …-selection constraint and the incentive to increase employment among the low-skilled reinforce each other in terms of marginal income … taxation. In addition, the appearance of equilibrium unemployment also provides an incentive for the government to directly tax …

declining unemployment are important to identify assimilation effects on immigrant earnings. We show that this is the case for … that local labour market conditions impact the rate of the earnings assimilation. We interpret the effect of unemployment …

. These include the distinction between the short and long-run trade-offs between inflation and unemployment, and the changing … level of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), particularly in the 1970s. We estimate Phillips curves …

Does the disappointingly high unemployment in Central and East European countries reflect non-completed adjustment to … of too weak aggregate demand and output? In the case of transitional causes, unemployment is expected to decline over … results suggest to declare the transition of labour markets as completed; unemployment responds to output and not to a …

alternative monetary rules on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We use the inflation forecasts of 8 competing …

This study poses the question about whether labour market institutions can explain unemployment rates in the ten new … European Union member states. In five out of the ten new member states, unemployment rates lie above the average in the 15 … part of unemployment in the new EU member states. This does not mean that these countries have no labour market problems …

, both retirement and unemployment emerge as important determinants of return migration choices. Unemployment spell length … determines the direction of selection with respect to unemployment in return migration. The data also reveal that the level of …