abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

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 …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …, nearly a million jobs in the Great Recession …

"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while … waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that a reasonably quick rebound of the labour market may …The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or …

We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19 …