, 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 …

In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …

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 …

Linear relationships between inflation, unemployment, and labor force are obtained for two European countries - Austria … and France. The best fit models of inflation as a linear and lagged function of labor force change rate and unemployment … inflation for the next ten years. In France, inflation lags by four years behind labor force change and unemployment allowing …

This paper studies the spatial distribution of unemployment by gender, in the counties of Romania, in 2008.The Lorenz … curve and Gini index are used to identify a pattern of spatial concentration of unemployment, differentiated by gender …. Evaluation of gender differences in unemployment spatial concentration model shows significant differences. There is a greater …