We investigate the impact of a set of place-based subsidies introduced in Turkey in 2012. Using firm-level balance … program and to input-output linkages that traverse subsidy regions within Turkey …

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 …

We revisit the hypothesis that cyclical fluctuations in unemployment are caused by shocks to the discount rate. We use … in the EU rate. The response of the unemployment rate is minuscule. These findings are at odds with the actual behavior … large unemployment fluctuations. We show that aggregate productivity shocks generate the correct comovement between the UE …