Unemployment dynamics across OECD countries

‘ Wage Rigidity and Unemployment in OECD Countries ’

Econometric investigations of individual countries’ experiences with inflation and unemployment in the 1970’s have shown that it is no longer sufficient to simply assume that wages are sticky in order to explain observed macroeconomic phenomena and make policy recommendations. A number of theoretical papers appearing in the last few years, motivated in part by the international econometric comp...

Common Cycles Across OECD Countries

The strong correlation between Australian and US output growth over the last two decades has been widely documented and analysed. What has always been difficult to understand is the source of this correlation, particularly since the extent of Australia’s integration with the US economy is no greater in many respects than with other countries. A recent research project within the Economic Resear...

The Unemployment Impact of Immigration in Oecd Countries

Migration and Unemployment Duration: The Case of the OECD Countries

This paper examines whether or not immigration has a positive influence on the duration of unemployment, in a macroeconomic perspective. We analyse also whether the degree of labor market integration can influence migration. The integration of immigrants into the labor market is a recurrence theme in the work on the economic consequences of immigration. However, to our knowledge, no researchers...

A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries

Policy reform can remove obstacles to intergenerational social mobility and thereby promote equality of opportunities across individuals. Such reform will also enhance economic growth by allocating human resources to their best use. This chapter assesses recent crosscountry patterns in intergenerational social mobility and examines the role that public policies play in affecting mobility. Inter...