2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to …. In the periphery countries, the reduction in unemployment rates is relatively pronounced, while in the core countries it …

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …