report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In … poverty and other labor market outcomes. Once we account for this selection, much of the evidence that state and federal EZs … that EZs - and especially state EZs - have for the most part been ineffective at reducing urban poverty or improving labor …

U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms … varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

's distribution of talent and other attributes valued in the labor market. Today's labor market does not meet this criterion inasmuch …, i.e., those without full time jobs which today in the U.S. is still 10% of the labor force or some 15 million people … (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). This is substantial but it does not even include about 5 million additional people who …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The … theoretical analysis shows that an increase in JSA and a reduction in UI reduce the output cost of recessions by making the labor …

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

disaggregated labor market data from the UKś Annual Population Survey, we find strong evidence in support of the theoretical …Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of …