matching model, thus providing a possible explanation for the unemployment volatility puzzle. …

-called “shadow puzzle”, with the possibility that tougher monitoring may reduce both the hidden sector and unemployment. If …

Inadequate utilisation of available manpower is a perennial problem in India, with Open Unemployment (OU) being a major …-Open Unemployment SOU), and Lack of Adequate Returns from jobs (incidence of poverty among more or less regular workers or Non …

face of involuntary unemployment. We prove that unemployment may be the physiological outcome of rational decisions by … kept high because of reduced unemployment opportunity costs. This contrasts with other approaches to the analysis of … unemployment, where only the level of labor demand is considered. Impatience of working and effort required by the job are also …

improvement in the employment prospects, as measured by a decline in unemployment, strengthens the intrinsic motivation of an … set. Results: Our main findings were that unemployment has a significant negative effect on the number of drug users … entering treatment, i.e. when unemployment declines (increases) the number of drug treatment clients increases (declines). We …

raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected … duration of post-unemployment job matches. On the other hand, an increase in skill mismatch in the aggregate production … function lowers the level of unemployment in an economy with high unemployment benefits. The third chapter empirically …