The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate … analysis of optimal UI should take a more comprehensive view of how UI affects the labor market. …

This paper analyzes the recent performance of Latin American labor markets. We find that unemployment rates are on the … rise in most countries and sub-regions of Latin America. The rise in unemployment over the 1990s is not driven by a higher … proportion of women, adults or urban workers in the labor force, nor can it be attributed to an increasing demand for skilled …

the labor force, wage rates, and demographic conditions of both the U.S. and source-area economies through the 1980s. The …

Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many … unusually large variance in labor policy in Chile to examine how different labor market regulations affect the distribution of …