, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. …

interested in regional adjustment costs can use indices of the change in regional employment and unemployment as good proxies for …

underemployment is distinguished from other part-time employment. Effects of a wide range of personal and neighbourhood … characteristics are examined, including family background, employment history and local labour market conditions. Underemployment is … found to have many predictors in common with unemployment, but also a number of differences. Additional models are estimated …

employment services for unemployment insurance (UI) beneficiaries and Australian arrangements for the second and third Job …The Netherlands is the only country other than Australia where publicly-financed employment services for disadvantaged … employment services, tendering procedures, jobseeker target groups, the duration of contracts, market entry and exit, and market …

In this paper we investigate the behaviour of net flows of persons between employment, unemployment and not in the … period. We find that: flows from unemployment to employment exceed flows from employment to unemployment and that this is the … employment and that this is the case even in booms, and; flows from not in the labour force to unemployment exceed flows from …

The conference spent too much time discussing unemployment. The two key labour market problems are the lack of full …-time job growth and the rapid growth of all welfare recipients. Unemployment is just a small part of the structural problem in …

disadvantage persist. Studies of disadvantaged workers often focus on regions experiencing employment decline; this paper instead … market benefit from employment growth? Are policies that focus on the delivery of employment growth sufficient for … gap in the relative probabilities of unemployment between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged participants persists. This …