This book grew out of our research on the macroeconomic causes of unemployment, rising
in e qual ity, and the rather lackluster growth and productivity per for mance in Western Eu …

The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long run
implies the compartmentalization of macroeconomics. While one branch of the literature …

Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge;
a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether work …

El desempleo en América Latina ha tenido una disminución sustancial durante el periodo
2000-2013. Desde el punto de vista teórico convencional, lo anterior sería consecuencia de …

The shadow banking business of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has experienced
rapid growth, which we attempt to explain from the perspective of non-state shareholder …

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMIs) are the key determinants
of unemployment in the medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures …

In this paper we apply the meta-regression technique to survey the empirical literature on
the economic incidence of labour taxes and social security contributions. In particular, we …

A very important issue that plays a crucial role in development of the economies is the
underutilization of its human capital ie unemployment. This paper investigates …

The paper presents a post-Keynesian view of unemployment. It argues, first, that the
effective labour demand need not be downward sloping with respect to real wages, and …

This paper tries to detect the effectiveness of active labor market policy (ALMP) on the
unemployment rate. The generalized method of moments system for dynamic panel …