Unemployment and Economic Growth

External reference: https://openalex.org/T13399

  1. Digitalization is linked to lower youth unemployment in Kazakhstan
    Study analyzes digitalization's impact on youth unemployment in Kazakhstan using ARDL analysis, finding 1% Internet increase reduces youth unemployment by 0.27% in the short run.
  2. Inflation can increase job switching and vacancies
    Model explaining how nominal wage stickiness causes workers to switch jobs during inflation, creating paradox of high vacancies with lower real wages.
  3. Trade and migration frictions affect unemployment in opposite ways
    Study comparing how international trade and sectoral allocation frictions differentially affect employment reallocation and unemployment, emphasizing firm productivity sorting mechanisms.
  4. Correcting publication bias lowers estimated unemployment-benefit effects
    Meta-analysis of unemployment insurance effects on joblessness duration, correcting publication bias to estimate optimal replacement rates at 28% in the United States.
  5. Decomposing Variations in Labor Market Mismatch
    Analysis decomposing labor market mismatch into unemployment, vacancy, and matching efficiency components, finding unemployment drives cyclical variation while vacancy effects are countercyclical.