sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would … in unemployment signifies a more accurate reflection of disguised unemployment that already existed in the mid-1990s …

in developing countries have multiple equilibria – the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …

using the micro-data, this paper shows that this state of non-searching unemployment or discouragement has increased more … some of the jobless with considerable movements between the two categories of unemployment. These findings from the first … unemployment, which includes discouraged workers. In response to these labour market challenges, the government should further …

market in an environment of high unemployment. Using a multivariate analysis, we see that transitory incomes play a large … role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …

domains with macro-structural relevance (employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, wage setting). Reforms tend … improved activity rates and lower unemployment. …

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …