We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and … training systems. To tackle the Keynesian and neoclassical components of unemployment, instead, it is vital to rethink the …

change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …

unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the various labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, such as … high unemployment and discouragement, and how they changed from 2007 to 2010. A multinomial logit regression analysis is …

average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment …

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …

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

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …