The rise of youth unemployment has been one of the most serious problems which
policymakers have had to deal with over the last two decades. Neoclassical economic …

We analyse how fiscal policy affects both the macroeconomy and the industry structure,
using a multi-sector macroeconomic model of the Norwegian economy with an inflation …

We develop a novel medium-scale DSGE model, called NORA, for fiscal policy analysis in
Norway. NORA contains a sheltered and exposed sector allowing us to model wage …

How much stimuli that should be attributed to R&D investments crucially depends on how
the benefits of R&D reverberate throughout the economy. An extensive literature has found …

BACKGROUND Studies on the unemployment–fertility relationship show divergent and
inconclusive findings. OBJECTIVE We aim to investigate the unemployment–fertility …

We argue that father involvement at the societal level influences women's fertility decisions.
If father involvement becomes a social norm, it provides expectations about shared …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the existence of discouraged worker effect
hypothesis and unemployment invariance hypothesis in Africa, including its five regional …

With respect to instability and structural changes for maintaining effective functioning of
economy an important issue is to study the dynamics of processes in the labour market …

Two interesting facts emerge from the Palestinian labour market. Educational attainment for
women swiftly expanded during the 1999–2011 period, but the labour force participation …

This note describes some of the early policy developments in the UK and the way in which
the framing and understanding of a novel economic problem evolved to include a focus on …