Investigating how lending conditional programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) affect the unemployment rate. We apply four different empirical approaches accounting for the selection bias issue using a panel of 96 countries for the period of 1971-2015. We find that IMF loan programs...

Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the...