Both unemployment and non-employment in Great Britain fell steadily after 1993. The ratio of jobs to the working age … population - the employment rate - rose. But the increasing regional dispersion of employment rates remains a puzzle. By 2000 … puzzle in the context of different measures of the employment rate and examines what we know and what we do not know about …

This paper tests economic impacts of labor market institutions on employment of OECD nations from the perspective of …