In this paper, the authors study exit routes out of unemployment for older Norwegian unemployed in the period 1989 to …

We consider a continuum of unemployed workers ranked according to their unemployment duration. There are two industries … a training cost, which is proportional to his unemployment duration, the training cost being larger in the high … study different types of second best policies that either subsidy the training cost or the wages and we compared them. …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are …

factor shares turn in favour of wages, when unemployment falls. The only important prerequisite for this result is that money … partly determined by the unemployment stock. As intuition says the share of wages in value added increases with the stock of … explanatory unemployment variable in the Phillips relation is intuitively to be regarded as an indicator of labour scarcity …

This paper attempts to investigate the relation among wages, unemployment and obesity and to identify public policies … developed. Our framework tries to capture the relationship between obesity and employment/unemployment by assuming that the … fraction of obese workers is a function of the ratio of vacant jobs to unemployment (labour market tightness). We argue that if …

-term unemployment has no effect on wages. We produce contrary evidence. The MPC further reduces the level of underemployment in the … Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to both unemployment and underemployment, which in our view are invalid. Without any evidence … the MPC in its assessment of the output gap reduces the level of unemployment because of its claim that long …