that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … opposite directions while a shock to the net flow from not in the labour force to unemployment drives the rates in the same …

spirit of Blanchard and Summers (1988), the model can generate multiple equilibria, with a low-quits/high-unemployment … equilibrium coexisting with a high-quits/low-unemployment equilibrium. Under weak conditions, low-unemployment equilibria Pareto … dominate high-unemployment equilibria. Mobility premia improve aggregate welfare but may increase unemployment. …

This paper provides an overview of the main features of unemployment in Australia, and its consequences. Its main … objectives are to: describe the main features of the evolution and distribution of unemployment; present information on labour … market outcomes underlying the changes in unemployment - with the aim of providing some insights into the nature of …

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as … fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the … unemployment not only in the short run, but in the long run as well. The reason is that, in the presence of growing exogenous …

This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market … decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are … examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when temporary shocks have persistent effects on unemployment; and (ii …

This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The … theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of … government spending on public-sector jobs reduces unemployment, especially during recessions: the fiscal multiplier …

shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s … although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This Paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative …

aggregate unemployment. In this paper we explore a related but more specific issue: the consequences of immigration on the …