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

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour 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 …

. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …