We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the marginalized workers, and show that ALMPs may increase unemployment. …

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

Private consumption demand falls in response to increased unemployment risk during a recession, as households increase … unemployment risk is more important than realized unemployment shocks in accounting for durable expenditure dynamics during … recessions, while the opposite is true for nondurables. The importance of anticipation of future unemployment risk also means …

unemployment remains unclear. Existing econometric estimates exhibit substantial variation, and it is therefore difficult to draw … observations on the effect of EPL on unemployment from 75 studies. Once we control for publication selection bias, we cannot reject … the hypothesis that the average effect of EPL on unemployment is zero. The meta-regression analysis, which investigates …

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