market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al …. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data on institutions, which cover employment protection legislation (EPL …), the tax wedge, the unemployment benefit level, unemployment benefit duration and union density, are assembled at the IZA …

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of … market institutions, which are among candidate explanations for the very diverse trajectories of labor markets in the region …. We consider recent contributions that attempt to assess the effect of labor market institutions on labor market …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …