Unemployment in the United Kingdom has fallen from high European-style levels to US levels. I argue that the key … monetary policy as an institutional change that reduced inflationary pressures in the face of falling unemployment. The decline …

Unemployment in the United Kingdom has fallen from high European-style levels to US levels. I argue that the key … monetary policy as an institutional change that reduced inflationary pressures in the face of falling unemployment. The decline …

regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …

the outcome of long-term unemployment which is the result of changing the nation’s socio-eco-political environment …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This … paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of …