Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children’s educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment. …

participants relative to non-participants. -- Unemployment ; transition economies ; active labour market programs ; evaluation …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …

) The informal sector works as an "unemployment buffer" but not a "welfare buffer" in the event of negative economic shocks. …

frictions across and within sectors, leading to unemployment dynamics and sluggish transitions to shocks. We use the estimated … quantitatively the short- and long-run implications of globalization shocks for labor reallocation and unemployment dynamics. In a …

have greater effects in reducing local unemployment rates if the local economy is initially depressed than if the local … economy is booming. Demand shocks have greater effects on local wage rates if the local unemployment rate is initially low …