Top Research Papers on Unemployment

20 In both policy debates and the popular press, discussions of the employment situation in the U.S. tend to focus heavily on the overall civilian unemployment rate. But the overall unemployment rate is just one aspect of the employment situation, and a focus on this one number can conceal interesting and important changes in the employment outlook for different groups in the labor force. This Weekly Letter discusses some of the characteristics of u.S. unemployment that are important for the appropriate design of labor market policies and for the design of monetary policies aimed at controllin...

This chapter offers a wide-ranging review of the macroeconomics of unemployment and related issues. Setting the scene with definitions, motivation, and facts, the discussion proceeds to a baseline wage and price setting model, which offers some first key insights. Formal models of trade unions and efficiency wages, and of the less standard, but topical, dual labour markets, are developed next. Dynamic issues, such as hysteresis and its underpinning factors, are also discussed. A major subsequent theme is the flows and search-based recent theory, emphasizing job creation and destruction, hiring...

The unemployment rate is the most commonly used indicator for understanding conditions in the labour market. The labour market is the term used by economists when talking about the supply of labour (from households) and demand for labour (by businesses and other organisations). The unemployment rate can also provide insights into how the economy is performing more generally, making it an important factor in thinking about monetary policy.

Explains why Keynesian and Monetarist macroeconomic policy have not licked the problems of inflation and unemployement. Advocates economic/social political institutional chang es for Canada before current unemployment problems are overcome. Divisions: Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Political Science Item Type: T hesis (Masters) Authors: Li, Chi Fai Quick links MyConcordia Cspace Webmail Directories Library A-Z Maps Spectrum Research Repository

The unemployment rate is the most commonly used indicator for understanding conditions in the labour market. The labour market is the term used by economists when talking about the supply of labour (from households) and demand for labour (by businesses and other organisations). The unemployment rate can also provide insights into how the economy is performing more generally, making it an important factor in thinking about monetary policy.

Occupational health services, in collaboration with community resources and social services, can help prevent negative effects on family and community wellness from the stress of an unemployed family member or the collective stress experienced by aggregates of terminated workers in the community.

It is widely accepted that in monopoly capitalism there is a tendency toward growing accumulation and production without an adequate and proportional rise in employment. According to one law, a minimum increase of 4 percent in the GNP is necessary to prevent an increase in unemployment, and a much larger one to reduce it. This has been confirmed by the small recovery of 1976-77. This state of affairs, however, was already evident during the 1960s when, despite the boom, there were already clear indications to discourage the optimism of that period and to infer that, in terms of employment, cap...

We study a model in which management and a union bargain over a rule that will later determine the level of employment, and over a wage. The government then chooses an output or an employment subsidy. An exogenous natural turnover rate in the unionized sector creates unemployment whenever the union wage exceeds the competitive wage. Government intervention can increase both the equilibrium amount of unemployment and worsen the intersectoral allocation of labour, because of the induced change in the endogenous wage. Unemployment weakens but does not eliminate the possibility of a "labour-manage...

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1. A Limited Market 2. The Failure of Consumption 3. The Balance of Spending and Saving 4. The Psychology of trade Fluctuations 5. Surplus Income the Cause of Fluctuations 6. Wage Reduction as Remedy for Depression 7. Credit as a Factor in Fluctuations 8. The Douglas Theory 9. Replies to Criticism 10. A Summary

Economics is the science that studies the laws of supply and demand within a country's economy. For hundreds of years, economists have debated the issue of unemployment and its impact on a country's economy. The arguments have given rise to several schools of thought regarding how governments and policymakers should react when their workers cannot find jobs that pay decent wages. The arguments have also led to the formation of new countries and the reconstruction of others. This literature review used a systematic approach to review selected and representative studies, theoretical papers, and ...

This comprehensive four-volume collection of previously published papers sets out to examine the most important issues in the study of unemployment; its causes, consequences and policies designed to tackle the problem.

Of all forms of social insurance, unemployment insurance has always presented the greatest difficulties as to both theory and method of organization. In fact, the difficulties were so great that for many years even the keenest students of the problem practically admitted them to be insurmountable. The history of social insur? ance presents no more dismal failures than those that attended some of the experiments that were tried in connection with the prob? lem of unemployment. It was claimed by many that the problem of unemployment relief would have to be considered as a prob? lem of relief onl...

ABSTRACT. The aim of this paper is to address the problem of unemployment. Economists generally agree that a zero rate of unemployment is not only unattainable but also undesirable within capitalism. This is problematic because, as it will be shown, unemployment has adverse effects on both individuals and societies. Assuming that the primary aim of economics is to improve people's lives, it behooves us to find a solution to the problem of unemployment. Two solutions will be offered. The first works within the confines of the capitalist system - it requires instituting welfare policies that all...

The paper reviews the unemployment problem in Europe. It shows that while there is a good deal of heterogeneity in European unemployment experience, a 'European model' of high and persistent unemployment characterizes many of the core continental economies, in contrast to the low unemployment experience of the United States. The explanation that this difference is due to a common skill-biased shock interacting with more rigid labour-market features in the European case is reviewed, as is the suggestion that the European experience is exceptional on account of the more stringent macro-environme...

The year 1929 was chiefly characterized by a high level of factory employment and pay-rolls. How high they were is better measured by indices adjusted to the U.S. Censuses of Manufactures, than by unadjusted "link-chain" indices. The slump late in 1929 carried factory employment and pay-rolls in December down to a point abreast of their low of years before but above those of mid-1924 and far above 1921. Rail-road personnel enjoyed better employment in 1929 than in 1928, though less good than in other recent years owing chiefly to technological displacement; but their earnings were very large. ...

Nezaposlenost je u Hrvatskoj posljedica strukturnih promjena gospodarstva, likvidacija i stecaja poduzeca, otpustanja zaposlenih, razmjerno smanjenih mogucnosti zaposljavanja, ali i prostorne i profesionalne neusklađenosti ponude i potražnje rada.

Having stayed at about 2.4 per cent (seasonally adjusted) from October to December last year, unemployment (including the temporarily stopped) rose to 2.6 per cent in January and February but then fell back to the rate of 2.4 per cent in March.

U ovom poglavlju znanstvene monografije analiziraju se trendovi zaposlenosti i nezaposlenosti u Gradu Crikvenici.

The article looks close at labor from a Christian perspective. The author discusses the value of labor and its role for human life as well as for community. He addresses issues related to unemployment, lack of jobs and impact of them on human life. These issues are placed in the social, psychological and theological context.