the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …

suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …

employees are closely linked to changes in vacancies, and we also see ows from unemployment to inactivity peak at the same time …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …