increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women’s labor market statuses and their partners’ unemployment in …

considerably improve effectiveness: up to 20% more (less) time spent in (un)employment within a 30 months window. A shallow policy …

. At the municipality level, we find a large reduction of long-term unemployment, and no negative employment spillovers …

exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear … market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms … varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However …

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …