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 …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

to the data available in state Unemployment Insurance (UI) earnings records. We find that value to be zero …

administrative records that provide universal, weekly, information on unemployment claimants. The second data source is transaction … data sources and the novel cross-county variation in the incidence of the COVID-19 supplement to Unemployment Insurance to … estimate the local impact of unemployment, earnings replacement, and their interaction on economic activity. We find that …

unemployment; (4) active labor market programs are more likely to show positive impacts in a recession …

We study the relationship between unemployment, environmental policy, and business cycles. We develop a dynamic … from labor market search frictions, which generate unemployment. We consider two policies to address the market failures …

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect. Using data from the large job board … implies that the general equilibrium effect reduces the impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment by 40%: increasing …