This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have …

. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if … during their unemployment spell suffer a (causal) penalty for doing so, relative to their peers who do not. The penalty, in … terms of less employment, more unemployment, lower wages, lessens over time but is still present after three years …

-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …

employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a … signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … are not recalled. In contrast, because workers whose plant closed cannot be recalled, longer unemployment for them should …

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 …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …