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 …

crowding out, as public sector hiring reduces private employment but the net impact of unemployment is negative. These findings …

The large-scale unemployment caused by the Great Recession has necessitated unprecedented increases in the duration of … unemployment insurance (UI). While it is clear that the weekly payments are beneficial to recipients, workers receiving benefits … changes in the distribution of unemployment benefit duration. We find that search activity is greater when a claimant's UI …

The study examines the relationship between unemployment and property crimes for Pakistan covering the period of 1975 … series data. The results of the cointegration analysis provide evidence of a valid long-run relationship between unemployment … to different kinds of property crimes. The causality results explain that unemployment Granger cause theft, dacoity …

responsible for a substantial fraction of the variation in unemployment. The main purpose of this paper is to test the Lillien … hypothesis that sectoral shifts in employment are also responsible for fluctuations in aggregate unemployment for the Turkish … economy. The long run relationship between sectoral shifts, as measured by Lillien index, and unemployment along with the …

growth affect the unemployment probability of individuals with varied skills in the United States. The paper goes beyond … between macroeconomic shocks and unemployment. Workers specialized in communication skills exhibit lower unemployment rates …, reduced unemployment volatility, and less sensitivity to macroeconomic fluctuations. …

been predicted. But the standard measure of unemployment agreed at international level has some shortcomings. Its … “objective” definition of unemployment is a poor fit with the Italian labour market. Also, the considerable increase in labour … hoarding and the emergence of “semi-employment” – the alternation of brief periods of work with periods of unemployment or …

This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …

This paper re-examines Lilien’s sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans … stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes into account dynamics, parameter heterogeneity and cross …