While the unemployment rate in the Baltics has fallen sharply from its crisis-peaks, it remains close to double digits …. Our main findings are that the current still elevated levels of unemployment mostly reflect structural factors. We then … turn to why structural unemployment is so high. This paper points to skill mismatches, high tax wedges, and unemployment …

with distortionary taxation and unemployment. We argue that the simultaneous reduction in the fiscal deficit and … unemployment rate in this episode stems from two factors: (i) high growth rates of total factor productivity (TFP), experienced … TFP boosted net exports and led to a reduction in the unemployment rate. A counterfactual simulation assuming stagnant TFP …

The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their … unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment … benefits into employment subsidies--quot;benefit transfersquot; for short--would help replace the unemployment trap by an …

relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the … extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different …

may have increased unemployment. It is shown that it is likely to be so if they are associated with an increase in the …

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 …

Despite its low unemployment rate, the recent shift in the Japanese Beveridge curveindicates increased labor mismatch …

The negative and stable relationship between an economy’s aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well …-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and … economy groups. First, unemployment is more than twice as sensitive to aggregate demand in advanced as in emerging market and …