In recent years, unemployment rates in some ECCU countries have been among the highest globally. This paper evaluates … significantly associated with high structural unemployment, while the global crisis added a cyclical component. Our analysis also … unemployment is related to the phase out of EU preferences on bananas/sugar exports or to a skills mismatch. As expected …

This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A … dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to study the impact of gender-targeted policies on female labor force … participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using …

that rural children struggled to continue learning during school closures. Gender-sensitive policies are needed to narrow …

The paper examines the consequences of fiscal consolidation in times of persistently low growth and high unemployment … unemployment at five-year horizons are significantly above one during PR episodes. These results suggest that medium-term fiscal …

JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores … the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of … increases in unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions …

The aim of this paper is to analyze unemployment and labor market developments in Algeria and assess the factors that … rigid labor market are the main factors behind the still high level of unemployment, particularly among the youth …. Simulation analyses, based on the results on the relation between labor market institutions and unemployment, show that …