possibility that the relationship between self-employment and unemployment is not identical across nations; ii) circumvent … differing effects on unemployment, depending on the regime; and iv) analyze the dynamic effects of self-employment shocks on job … significant response of cyclical unemployment to shocks to self-employment but with differing intensities, depending on the level …

unemployment in selected OECD countries. The labour force variations attributable to an economy operating at below full employment … force participation rates. The results show that hidden unemployment is a major problem in the countries studied, and adds …

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on … the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment leads …

This paper introduces and examines a definition of an equilibrium rate of unemployment that can be used as mismatch …

unemployment. These results survive several robustness checks. The differing results concerning the roles of income and education …

This paper investigates unemployment and labour market rigidities in OECD countries in 1983-1994. The central issue is … the taxation-unemployment relationship and whether this relationship is exogenous or simultaneously determined. Hausman … specification tests indicate that the impact of taxation on short-term unemployment is positive and exogenous whereas the …