relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run ‡uctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

capital, may affect European unemployment in two, mutually enforcing, ways. Firstly the existence of minimum non …. Unemployment and minimum living costs are also increased by an increase in population, by an increase in the relative productivity …

examining the relationship between output and demand as mediated by changes in unemployment, or Okun's law. We also demonstrate …

This paper examines the causes of observed increase in the duration of unemployment relative to the unemployment rate … the change in the structure of unemployment duration. In particular, we examine how much of the observed change can be … unemployment insurance and the change in union affiliation. We show that changes in the composition of the labor force and …