Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …

The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …

, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …

This study examines the effciency and distributional effects of selected labor market institutions in Albania, a rather … fnd evidence of ineffcient segmental effects and a predatory structure of labor market institutions which noticeably … diverge from the effcient institutions' point of reference. The institutional/welfare regime at the cross-national level …

The paper extends the literature on the political economy of labour market institutions by developing a framework in … that where owners of capital are better placed to influence government choices of these institutions, labour market … flexibility is influenced by both labour market institutions intensity of exports and as well as rule of law intensity of exports …