Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We …, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of vacancies, and higher directed-search unemployment. Where workers are …

worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with …

the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that adopt both our … the GI outperform the traditional ones in predicting the monthly unemployment rate, even in most state-level forecasts and … ; US Unemployment ; Time Series Models …

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …