The Great Recession pushed Japan’s unemployment rate to historic highs, but the increase has been small by …

macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual …-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset provides an interesting … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …

The Greek unemployment rate rose from 2 percent in the 1960s to 9-10 percent in the 1990s. This reflected the increase … in female participation rates, the slowdown in growth, the restructuring of production, and the increased mismatch …

High and persistent unemployment, as well as its composition, e.g., high youth unemployment, suggests underlying …-section empirical evidence, point to a number of potential causes of structural unemployment in France. These Include the generosity of … long-term relative to short-term unemployment benefits, the minimum wage, the level of employers’ tax wedge, skills …

The aim of this paper is to analyze unemployment and labor market developments in Algeria and assess the factors that … rigid labor market are the main factors behind the still high level of unemployment, particularly among the youth …. Simulation analyses, based on the results on the relation between labor market institutions and unemployment, show that …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between labor market flexibility and unemployment outcomes. Using … flexibility have a statistically and significant negative impact on unemployment outcomes (over unemployment, youth unemployment … and long-term unemployment). Among the different labor market flexibility indicators analyzed, hiring and firing …

impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with … with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long …-term unemployment in the medium term. Conversely, large upfront, or gradual but significant, comprehensive labor market policies have a …

employment and the level of unemployment in a two-sector economy with a heterogenous work force. Efficiency wage considerations …

This paper examines the problem of unemployment in Ireland. A brief description of the main distinctive features of the … structure of Irish unemployment is presented. Based on up to date literature, the possible causes behind unemployment are … unemployment are also surveyed. The paper concludes with some policy suggestions …

unemployment, including the sharp rise in U.S. long-term unemployment during the Great Recession of 2007-09. About 75% of the … forecast error variance of unemployment is accounted for by cyclical factors-real GDP changes (?Okun‘s Law?), monetary and … dispersion of industry-level stock returns, account for the remaining 25 percent. For U.S. long-term unemployment the split …