This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

income is stronger, and that its level should be higher. the higher the level of unemployment or job scarcity. Point of … equivalent. The equivalence is that the price of Labour Rights and the unemployment benefit corresponds to the income tax rate …. This analysis provides an argument against cutting unemployment and social assistance benefits during economic downturns …

standard model of equilibrium unemployment and search in the labor market by the distinction between age specific separation … to this, the unemployment rate in Germany and Japan will rise as a consequence of the increase in the share of elderly …

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy … - on the ability of these theories to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behaviour. The paper considers …

This paper provides a critique of the ``unemployment invariance hypothesis,'' according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as … fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the … unemployment not only in the short run, but in the long run as well. The reason is that, in the presence of growing exogenous …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

Unemployment rates in the United States have been slow to fall over the last couple of years despite a modest growth in … unemployment? Bell and Blanchflower suggest that one factor is the extent to which workers already employed prefer to work more …