, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates … institutional rigidities affecting unemployment impact inactivity along the same line. To cope with common problems related to the … variables. New institutional series are proposed, namely to account for unemployment insurance net replacement rates and …

, which is among the highest in the OECD. The paper argues that policies should continue to tackle the high inactivity of … early stage. For the long-term unemployed, policies should be further strengthened by adjusting the unemployment benefit and …

evidence is only starting to catch up. In particular, EPL is not robust as an indicator of overall unemployment, but previous …

The Krugman hypothesis attributes high wage inequality in the US and high unemployment in continental Europe in the …, which suggests that, when labor supply is sensitive to wages, there is a trade-off between unemployment on one hand, and … wage inequality and inactivity on the other. …

decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …

This paper examines the recent evolution of unemployment and inactivity in Brazilian metropolitan areas. We analyze the … inactivity: it is inversely related to male inactivity and directly related to female inactivity. Moreover, the observed patterns … among poor and non-poor women are extremely different – poor women have higher inactivity rates than non-poor women …

We reconsider the central role of the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) in forming policy decisions. We show that the … unemployment rate does not gravitate towards the NRU due to frictional growth, a phenomenon that encapsulates the interplay between … empirical analysis and find that the NRU explains only 33% of the unemployment variation, while frictional growth accounts for …

Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in … force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for …. Nevertheless, the model explains between ~65% and ~95% of the variability in unemployment and inflation. For Italy, the rate of …

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 …