We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …

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 …

pandemic recession. We first measure the contribution of temporary layoffs to unemployment dynamics over the period 1979 to the … due to "loss-of-recall", whereby workers in temporary-layoff unemployment lose their job permanently and do so at higher … both temporary-layoff and jobless unemployment. The model captures well pre-pandemic unemployment dynamics and shows how …

We explore the response of employment (unemployment) skill differentials to skill-biased shifts in demand touched off … by the new and spreading technologies. We find that skill differentials in unemployment follow at least in part the same … differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment …

(i.e., unemployment) and easily integrates into theoretical models. We apply our filter to a unique linkage of 23.5m SSA … of persistent earnings losses associated with full year unemployment has increased by 50%. Using geography, education …