Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment …

country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate … procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP. We embed endogenous participation in a … extensive-margin labor supply elasticity. A calibration of the model to macro data not only matches employment and participation …

standard job ladder model significantly understates the search option associated with employment (and thus underestimates the … duration of unemployment, both of which are present in our data …

impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases … became larger when I did not control for industry, occupation, government employment, and human capital variables including …