2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to …. In the periphery countries, the reduction in unemployment rates is relatively pronounced, while in the core countries it …

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

In recent years, unemployment rates in some ECCU countries have been among the highest globally. This paper evaluates … significantly associated with high structural unemployment, while the global crisis added a cyclical component. Our analysis also … unemployment is related to the phase out of EU preferences on bananas/sugar exports or to a skills mismatch. As expected …

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 …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … demand and supply shocks are opposite to those of the standard case and result in a co-movement of unemployment and … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that fluctuations in the total …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a …