characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …, discrimination against women, inefficiency of placement services for the unemployed, generalisation of under-employment, the place of …

informal employment. It also contains a seasonal and cyclical analysis. Flows in and out of inactivity are relatively large …. The hazard of employment in the informal sector is higher for male and older workers, while the hazard of economic … shows evidence that all gross flows into and out of unemployment have countercyclical patterns. Female workers are the group …

-pationally disabled by the Public Employment Service. In this study we have investi-gated the determinants of being classified as …

job losers with disabilities not returning to employment but instead becoming disability retirees. Although the earnings …

small businesses in the United States are one of the drivers explaining the unemployment dynamics during the Great Recession …. We show that workers in small firms are more likely to become unemployed during the 2007-09 financial crisis if they work …

This paper argues that the natural rate of unemployment hypothesis, in which equilibrium unemployment is determined by … unemployment is haunted by hysteresis. The curious history of the natural rate hypothesis is considered, curious because the … regarding hysteresis effects on output and unemployment is then reviewed. The implications for macroeconomic policy, and for the …

that had been characterized for many years by high unemployment and declining employment. Beginning in 2005, however, the … additionally spurred employment. Given these developments, the question arises if and to what extent the labor market entry of the … young and smaller cohorts has affected the declining unemployment rate in East Germany. This paper tackles the question of …

youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … the probability of young individuals being unemployed. To account for the possibility that individuals self-select into …

The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature of Greek regional unemployment. The paper contributes to the … literature assessing the stochastic properties of Greek unemployment rate in the context of the Greek regions by relying on … in all cases, after taking into account the fact that regional unemployment rates in Greece are subject to a structural …