budgetary cost of a focused unemployment system are moderate, and that returning the unemployment insurance to its primary role …

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on …

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment …

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality … workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and a lower formal …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …