increase in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

In recessions, unemployment increases despite the—perhaps counterintuitive—fact that the number of unemployed workers … finding jobs expands. On net, unemployment rises only because even more workers lose their jobs. We propose a theory of … unemployment fluctuations resting on this countercyclicality of gross flows from unemployment into employment. In recessions, the …

to reduce the currently high unemployment among the low-skilled dramatically. Among the high-skilled, scarcities will …

performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …

interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation, union density …

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 …

increase in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

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 …