Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …

-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by …This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were … banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991) followed by industry-wide or firm …

The recent experience of Washington State provides a natural setting to examine the effects of the unemployment … insurance payroll tax on wages, employment, claims and denials. During the 13 year period from 1972 through 1984, all employers … in Washington paid the same unemployment insurance (UI) tax rate. As a by-product of Federal legislation, Washington was …

We use job vacancy data collected in real time by Burning Glass Technologies, as well as unemployment insurance (UI …) initial claims and the more traditional Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment data to study the impact of COVID-19 on …-at-home policies. UI claims and BLS employment data also largely match these patterns. Nearly all industries and occupations saw …

Shimer (2005) pointed out that although we have a satisfactory theory of why some workers are unemployed at any given … time, we don?t know why the number of unemployed workers varies so much over time. The basic Mortensen-Pissarides (1994 …) model does not generate nearly enough volatility in unemployment, for plausible parameter values. This paper extends the …