Using U.S. real-time data, we show that changes in the unemployment rate unexplained by Okun's Law have significant … a change in potential GDP, the equilibrium unemployment rate, or the use of labor's intensive margin. …

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on … the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment leads …

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The …

This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …

During the last decade, economists have shown that the inverse relationship between economic growth and unemployment … are complemented by the calculation of the rate of output growth needed for a stable unemployment rate, as proposed by …

This paper examines the dynamic relationships that exist between output growth and unemployment and assesses the role … support for the hypothesis of non-linearity in the dynamic relationship between output and unemployment. We therefore … dynamic relationship is non-linear and hump-shaped. At unemployment rates below the threshold of 5.5%, the relationship is …

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …