This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

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 …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women's labor market statuses and their partners' unemployment in …

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

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of … 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 …

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

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

We investigate a prevalent, but understudied, employment protection policy: mandatory advance notice (MN), requiring … leads to shorter non-employment duration and higher reemployment wages, plausibly driven by on-the-job search. Using …