Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects Marcus Hagedorn, Fatih Karahan, Iourii Manovskii, and Kurt Mitman NBER Working Paper No. 19499 October 2013, Revised May 2016 JEL No. E24,J63,J64,J65 ABSTRACT Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect.
Unemployment statistics for the EU and Member States. The euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 7.3 % in February 2020, down form 7.4 % in January 2020 and from 7.8 % in February 2019. The EU unemployment rate was 6.5 % in February 2020, stable compared with January 2020 and down from 6.9 % in February 2019.
Downloadable! Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States as a function of inflation and the change in labor force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for Austria, Canada.
Abstract. In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies.
The unemployment rate moves in three levels in the European Union. A group of countries have low unemployment (especially Old Country Northern and Central Europe and some new ones such as Malta, Cyprus, Estonia, Slovenia) and a second between the Community level (New Countries, Old Southern Europe, the powerful countries of Germany and France).
This paper reviews recent research in ten Western European countries on the educational and labor market outcomes of second-generation minorities. Minorities from less-developed origins appear to be particularly disadvantaged in education, access to the labor market, and occupational attainment. Disadvantages are most evident with test scores early in the school career, but in some countries.
Youth unemployment in Europe: What to do about it? Page 4 Of course, among persons aged 15 to 24, for whom unemployment figures are collected on the European level (Eurostat) as well as by the OECD, a significant share is still in training, studying without being employed at the same time or using extended.
One of the most curious aspects is how well the former communist countries have done in getting unemployment down to very low levels. The transition to a market economy has been rough but with Czechia, Hungary and Poland all posting unemployment rates below that of Britain, where commentators boast endlessly of the UK’s high levels of job creation, it would seem that former communist.
Professor Richardson and Dr. Moon of the Politics Department, University of Strathclyde are the authors of the forthcoming Unemployment in the UK: Politics and Policies (Heinemann). They are currently engaged in a research project on new technology policies and unemployment in Western Europe, financed by the Leverhulme Trust.