Our aim is to explain why the pattern of relative unemployment rates by education groups was non monotonic in most of …

Spain has had a serious structural unemployment problem for the last 20 years. This paper argues that the interaction … of firing costs and job-to-job flows added to changes in unemployment benefits, could provide an explanation for … equilibrium unemployment increasing, since 1984. First, we construct a new series of job-to-job flows and show it is significantly …

On June 2000 the Colombian National Department of Statistics (DANE) adopted a new definition to measure unemployment … the unemployment rate of about two percentual points. In this document we contrast the Colombian experience with another … according to the old and new definition of unemployment (employed, unemployed and out of the labour force) using the EM …

The effects on the aggregate unemployment rate of employment-protection provisions has been the subject of considerable … employment security is to increase the efficiency wage but not necessarily to increase unemployment. …

This paper provides an analysis of labour force participation, full and part-time work and unemployment, over the 1986 …

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …

Spain has had a serious structural unemployment problem for the last 20 years. This paper argues that the interaction … of /ring costs and job-to-job 0ows added to changes in unemployment bene/ts, could provide an explanation for equilibrium … unemployment increasing, since 1984. First, we construct a new series of job-to-job 0ows and show it is signi/cantly trended …

There is a considerable body of evidence showing that it is the inflow into unemployment that drives the unemployment … leaving employment and moving to unemployment in the six states of Australia. It is concluded that there is a common cyclical …