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

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 …

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 … similar to that of his unemployment …

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

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

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 …

activation schemes bear different effects on unemployment in low- and high-interest rate environments. There is also evidence of …