The Great Recession pushed Japan’s unemployment rate to historic highs, but the increase has been small by …

employs the same or another worker, the vacancy rate increases and the unemployment rate declines. However, the scheme …

increase in advance notice increases job to job movements, reduces unemployment flows, and has ambiguous effects on … unemployment. Results are consistent with the fact that North American and European labor markets, despite their differences in job … security provisions, experience similar turnover rates and dissimilar unemployment flows …

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 …

detrimental medium-term effects on output, unemployment, poverty, and inequality. However, policies can go a long way toward … relatively greater fiscal support. The increases in unemployment, poverty, and inequality are likewise lower for countries with …