Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

the minimum wage on teenage unemployment, or its relative impact on black and white teenagers. The purpose of this paper … unemployment rates of teenagers, we explore several related issues: the relative importance of changing the level and coverage of …

. In the more recent work, attention has shifted to effects on unemployment in low-wage demographic groups, such as … distinction between minimum wage effects on employment and those on unemployment. The purpose of this paper is to explore the … analytical distinction between employment and unemployment effects in the hope of providing some understanding of the …

We develop a computable general equilibrium model of the United States economy to study the unemployment effects of … carbon tax on aggregate unemployment is small and similar across the two labor mobility assumptions (0.2-0.3 percentage … points). The effect on unemployment in fossil fuel sectors is much larger under the immobility assumption - a 30 percentage …