Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the … abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its …

Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed … restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … workers reduced unemployed by 0.8 percentage points. Through the lens of an aggregate matching function, more activation is …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil … pervasive increases in domestic violence. Exploiting a discontinuity in unemployment insurance eligibility, we find that … and an increase in exposure of victims to perpetrators, with unemployment benefits partially offsetting the income shock …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

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

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 …

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 …