harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …

allows us to control for unmeasured country-specific factors that affect relative employment and unemployment, we find that … of young and older individuals relative to the prime-aged, with no significant effects on the relative unemployment of … raises female unemployment relative to male unemployment. These results suggest that union wage-setting policies price the …

unemployment over the last three decades. We find that while macroeconomic and demographic shocks and changing labor market … important factor explaining the shift in US relative unemployment. Our finding of the central importance of these interactions … relative unemployment has fallen in recent years in part because its more flexible labor market institutions allow shocks to …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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

-market recovery from financial crises is characterized by either higher unemployment ("jobless recovery") or a lower real wage …

and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …