The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a … major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to … live up to expectations. The level and duration of unemployment increased substantially in the downturn and the growth of …

from unemployment to income inequality. It makes three points: 1) The U.S. has incarcerated an extraordinarily high … propensity to commit crime among the non-institutional population. The paper focuses attention on the possibility that the …

evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual … labor market-crime and the sanctions-crime relations. It concludes that there is a labor market-crime link but that this …

implications of labor supply and search analysis but not with the view that long unemployment spells create a class of …This paper uses the "Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida Y Trabajo" (EGVT) -- a survey of the labor force activity of over … 61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and …

This study contrasts the labor market performance of the U.S. and OECD Europe in the 1980s and critically evaluates the … view that the U.S. has generated more jobs because its labor market is more 'flexible'. The study finds that the greater … instance in youth versus adult wages, helped limit U.S. unemployment, other aspects, for instance regional wage, show no …

retirement to an aging population. Boosted by the huge CARES (March 2020) and ARPA (April 2021) rescue packages, the early …