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 …

We study empirically how various labor market institutions – (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration …, and (iii) employment protection – shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that … more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both fiscal spending multipliers and macroeconomic volatility. This is …

generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We propose a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform …’s steady state unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect were nearly of equal importance. In addition, we provide …

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

The official unemployment rate has become an inadequate measure of labor market conditions. This poses a major … unemployment rate by weighing part-time workers with 62.5%, the proportion of the time they work relative to full-time workers. We … provide new monthly estimates of the unemployment rate for the period 1994-2019 and find that their average during this 25 …