the unemployment rate in Australia over the period 1979-1998. The Hodrick-Prescott filter is employed to extract the …

We explore a new approach to understanding the evolution of the unemployment rate in Australia. Specifically, we use … gross worker flows data to study the consequences of assuming that there is no unique equilibrium rate of unemployment but … rather a continuum of stochastic equilibrium rates which reflect the movement of the unemployment entry and exit rates over …

Economists face difficulties explaining the strong cyclicality of US unemployment. This paper contributes both by … unemployment, and the results suggest an upper bound on how far they can go in explaining unemployment cyclicality. …

determinant of unemployment, it seems reasonable to expect that long-discovered systemic differences in unemployment across groups …

China decreases unemployment rates, especially among males and high school graduates. However, the policy also decreases …

labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment from the depths of the … Great Recession; and the little-known continuing growth in post-inflation average earnings. …

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …

and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …