and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and … family serves as a form of welfare; (3) hazard rates linking the chances of job finding to duration of unemployment in the … 1981-85 period of massive joblessness did not decline with duration; (4) the length of unemployment spells reduces wages …

This paper compares the labor market implications of the health insurance system in Spain and in the United States … that in Spain, unlike the United States, essentially all heads of household work in the covered sector and thus have a full …

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 …

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labor market …

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed …

. In this paper, we examine the impact of labor market conditions, represented by either male civilian unemployment or … civilian unemployment rates, especially the rate for those twenty-five years old and over, are strongly and positively …

evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …

from the Paycheck Protection Program and states with more generous unemployment insurance benefits had milder declines and …

We revisit the hypothesis that cyclical fluctuations in unemployment are caused by shocks to the discount rate. We use … in the EU rate. The response of the unemployment rate is minuscule. These findings are at odds with the actual behavior … large unemployment fluctuations. We show that aggregate productivity shocks generate the correct comovement between the UE …