from unemployment from a worker's perspective. We also quantify the welfare costs of cyclical fluctuations in involuntary … unemployment in the U.S. labor market. In the empirical analysis, we document that the similar cyclical behavior of involuntary … part-time work and unemployment masks major differences in the underlying dynamics. Unlike unemployment, variations in …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and … that immigrants are more likely to receive both social assistance and unemployment compensation than natives. Immigrants … are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives and are more likely to stay on welfare and to receive …

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 …

not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … hostility to immigration from ethnically distinct populations. Furthermore, there is evidence that welfare and labour market …

observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training, followed … local language are very high, but imported skills have zero (conditional) return. Furthermore, the welfare gain from the …

constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long …