affects private sector employment, the unemployment level, and the unemployment duration in the transition economies of … private sector and a high unemployment level of long duration. The paper also addresses the issue of the optimal (output …

inflation, unemployment, government deficit, and GDP growth into a single indicator. In contrast to other indexes, the EPI does …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … 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 …

structural unemployment remains high, and Finland faces a rapidly changing global and domestic environment that calls for hard …

unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states …

This paper asks how well Okun’s Law fits short-run unemployment movements in the United States since 1948 and in … that did not change substantiallyduring the Great Recession. Accounts of breakdowns in the Law, such as the emergence ofâ … the unemployment rate—varies substantially across countries. This variation is partly explained by idiosyncratic …