This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality …, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal … workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and a lower formal …

For every payment, there is an equal and opposite tax. In the study of unemployment insurance, economists have … unexamined the influence on labor demand of the unique tax that finances it. Experience rating in unemployment insurance presents …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

women experience longer unemployment durations and comparable hourly wage losses. Displaced expectant mothers experience … female workers come through longer unemployment instead of higher losses in wages …

changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional panel data provided by Eurostat, the statistical office of the … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

the traditional survey-based unemployment rate versus big-data-based JPCs in capturing labor market transitions in the … predict individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment. Unlike with the unemployment rate, we not only examine … disaggregated levels. Our findings suggest that JPCs and the unemployment rate provide comparable predictive power for labor market …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …