This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that … on liquidity are hit disproportionally hard. This may explain why the unemployment rate in the US during the Great …

This paper studies the mechanisms driving the persistently high unemployment rate during the last recession and mild …, we propose a methodology to decompose changes in the unemployment rate into worker inflows and outflows across industry …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment … in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from … employment to unemployment increased. The impact of some of the factors identified as contributing to the likelihood of a …

workplace safety of young workers. We find that higher local unemployment rates at entry have a positive effect both on severe … injuries and non-severe injuries. While the impact of unemployment at entry on severe injuries is constant over time, the …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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