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 …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low …

indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to …This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an … keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD countries for the period 1971 to 2002 that the strictness of …

attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …

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

-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners’ employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women’s labor market choices and outcomes … Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …

preferences for public sector employment and employers. In fixed effects specifications, we demonstrate that feelings of job … insecurity, experiences with wage arrears, and spells of unemployment all increase the attractiveness of work in the public …

the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its … dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training, productivity growth …This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on …

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the ….S. states, including many that experience unemployment during the transition. However, nominal rigidities reduce the overall U …