This paper explores the interrelation between the degree of unemployment persistence and the unemployment … unemployment and making unemployment less persistent, the less effective will be the growth-promoting supply-side policies (such as … training schemes) in reducing unemployment. …

This Paper studies the border between shadow employment and unemployment. It argues that the two macroeconomic … the labour market trade-off implied by ‘shadow reducing policies’, it suggests that economies with low unemployment … perform original empirical work on the border between employment, unemployment and inactivity, and we find that Italian shadow …

unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget renders … persistence of vacancies and unemployment. …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

forecasting unemployment evolution or analysis of the relationship between existing conditions of employment and job satisfaction …

Adam Smith considered poverty and unemployment as push factors for migration and wages high enough to provide for a …