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 …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 6th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

either the official unemployment rate or alternative measures of labor market underutilization. Modest amounts of …