By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers’ labor market transitions … behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …

During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve …. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors … the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … Great Recession. Second, many of those losing jobs are not actively looking to find new ones. As a result, we estimate the … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …