...Kuang Yong Ng; Zalina Zainal; Shamzaeffa Samsudin; Haitian Wei Purpose Unemployment during the public health crisis is more serious than during the economic crisis, notably during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the literature has focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment...

...Peterson Ozili; Olajide Oladipo Purpose We investigate the impact of private credit expansion and contraction on the unemployment rate in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries. Design/methodology/approach Credit expansion and contraction are measured using a three-level...

...Simplice Asongu; Nicholas M. Odhiambo Purpose This study assesses the relevance of foreign aid to the incidence of capital flight and unemployment in 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study is for the period 1996–2018, and the empirical evidence is based...

...Gianluca Piero Maria Virgilio; Fausto Saavedra Hoyos; Carol Beatriz Bao Ratzemberg Purpose The aim of this paper is to summarise the state-of-the-art debate on impact of artificial intelligence on unemployment and reporting up-to-date academic findings. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Abdul Saqib; Fouzia Yasmin; Ihtisham Hussain Purpose Socioeconomic development needs quality governance to provide and protect property rights and other economic means. In this regard, the current study examines the symmetric and asymmetric effect of composite governance index, unemployment rate...

... such as unemployment, infrastructure development and foreign direct investment inflows. Findings The findings revealed EPU is cointegrated with the key economic variables in focus. Further, the negative impact of EPU on corporate investment in FDI and positive impact of EPU on unemployment confirm for both short...

... rights only Ramsey policies Efficiency wages Unemployment Bulgaria E24 E32 J41 Since the early 1990s, many macroeconomic studies have focused on the effects of observed fiscal policy in general equilibrium setups, and in particular comparing and contrasting it to a benchmark...

... Africa. Design/methodology/approach Using unemployment, income and crime rates as proxies for social and economic outcomes, the effect of literacy is examined by employing the fixed- and random-effects techniques to estimate a panel data covering nine provinces in South Africa from 2008 to 2017...

...Deepti Singh; Shruti Shastri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the nexus among public expenditure allocated to education, educational attainment at secondary level and unemployment rate in India for the period 1987–2017. Design/methodology/approach The study employs...

...Marina Morales Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether family support, measured through the labor status of parents and the presence of both parents in the household during adolescence, may be an important determinant of unemployment in Spain. Design/methodology/approach...

...Iddisah Sulemana; Ebenezer Bugri Anarfo; Louis Doabil Purpose A large extant literature examines the association between unemployment and self-rated health. Most of these studies reveal that unemployment diminishes self-rated health. Another strand of this literature, albeit sparse, suggests...

...Omobola Adu; Oghogho Edosomwan; Abiola Ayopo Babajide; Felicia Olokoyo Purpose The industrial sector has been identified as one of the means to address the issue of unemployment due to its role in ensuring sustainable development. However, evidence from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical...

...Hamisu Salihu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the question: “Is Boko Haram (BH) a ‘child’ of economic circumstances”? In other words, do economic problems of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and population growth lie at the root of BH insurgency in Nigeria? Finding...

... correlation is identified between divorce and suicide rates within each county, which seems to contradict traditional beliefs that these variables move together. Also contrary to expectations, unemployment and suicide are not significantly related within counties. When the analysis measures the spillover...

..., less entrepreneurial, and less committed workforce. By means of an agent-based model, the authors simulated the effects on unemployment rates of an increasing of sexual orientation (SO) disclosure in the workplaces. The authors tested the effects on workers’ utility, level of job satisfaction...

...Peter E. Tanzer By Salvatore Babones With a foreword by John Cavanagh Sixteen for '16: A Progressive Agenda for a Better America Policy Press at the University of Bristol 2015 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 --> Inequality Unemployment 2016...

...Don Webber; Gail Pacheco Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate area-level labour market dynamics from a spatial perspective. This analysis is aimed at better understanding what socio-economic actors are associated with shifts in unemployment rates across a major metropolitan city...

...Christos Kollias; Suzanna‐Maria Paleologou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of unemployment on various types of crime in Greece. Design/methodology/approach A battery of econometric tests, including Granger causality tests, a variance decomposition analysis...

...Firouz Fallahi; Hamed Pourtaghi; Gabriel Rodríguez Purpose The paper aims to study the effect of the unemployment rate and its volatility on crime in the USA. It proposes that not only the unemployment rate, but also its volatility affect the crime. Design/methodology/approach First...

...Ioannis Katselidis; Angelos Vouldis; Panayotis G. Michaelides Purpose This paper aims to analyze Emil Lederer's and Sumner Slichter's theses on the concept of technological unemployment. Design/methodology/approach Given the presence of core elements of both economists' visions in the famous...