the effects of unemployment insurance on measured and actual employment, unemployment and non-participation. The data are … effect of UI on unemployment duration and temporary layoffs. The results are rather inconclusive, but suggest the importance …

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 …

Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …, nearly a million jobs in the Great Recession …

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … the 1972 to 1986 period. We measure this heterogeneity in terms of the gross creation and destruction of jobs and the rate … at which jobs are reallocated across plants. Our measurement efforts enable us to quantify the connection between job …

, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

competition, search and matching in its labor market, and wage bargaining. Some of the workers searching for jobs end up being … unemployed. Countries are similar except for frictions in their labor markets. We study the interaction of labor market … rigidities and trade impediments in shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, price levels and unemployment rates. We show that …

employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our … help employment for the unemployed, they do neither confirm the existence of adverse effects on the future regular …

By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering … this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data … and find that they increased the unemployment rate by at most 0.3 percentage point …

We measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the … benefit duration leads to a statistically significant increase of employment by 0.019 log points. In levels, 2.1 million … individuals secured employment in 2014 due to the benefit cut. More than 1.1 million of these workers would not have participated …