High unemployment, disrupted economic growth and sustainable development goals: Analyzing unemployment reduction

Urban Unemployment and Economic Growth in Africa

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Economic Status, Unemployment, and Family Growth

The economic status of a family has an important bearing on how many children they have, want, and expect and on the timing of family growth-the age at marriage, whether or not the mother was premaritally pregnant, and on the time interval between marriage and successive births. This is one of the findings from a study, made by the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, of mot...

Youth employment, unemployment, skills and economic growth

Unemployment and Economic Welfare

David Andolfatto is a professor of economics at the the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario. Paul Gomme is an economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Both authors are members of the Centre for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment in Montreal, Canada. They thank LutzAlexander Busch, Gordon Myers, and Ed Nosal for helpful comments and critic...

Investigating the Relationship between Unemployment Rate and Economic Growth Rate in Iran and Selected Countries

Abstract. According to a rule known as the Okan Law, for one percent decrease (increase) in the unemployment rate, the economic growth rate will increase (decrease) by approximately 0.3 percent. In other words, there is a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the economic growth rate. This study examines the establishment of this relationship. Contrary to expectations, the rel...