We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are … implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain …

This paper analyzes the heterogeneous effects of monetary policy on workers with differing levels of labor force … attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … with lower labor force attachment—Blacks, high school dropouts, and women—is more responsive to expansionary monetary …

The paper examines of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes … human capital. The paper also explores how the move towards multi-tasking can effect the labor market and the distribution …