transmission from international to retail coffee prices in France, Germany and the United States. We show that ignoring these two … faster during the post-ICA period in France and Germany. Our results suggest that, for these two countries, changes in …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …

Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women’s lower probability …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within …-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment … unemployment rates. Although this capital and labour mobility pattern is consistent with the presence of regional skill spillovers …

The objective of this paper is to provide a comparative assessment of the consequences of worker displacement in France …: all of the wage decline in France seems to be due to the loss of accumulated firm-specific earnings potential, while in …

unemployment is not unique. Employment and inflation cannot both be controlled by monetary policy. International growth will be …

Purpose – This paper contends that there is a positive relationship between current globalisation, unemployment … and “emic” perspective (authors’ viewpoint).Findings – A relationship between current globalisation, unemployment …, inequality and poverty should be investigated further. Unemployment increases levels of inequality and poverty within society …