We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19 …

We examine the optimal labor market-policy mix over the business cycle. In a search and matching model with risk …-efficient allocation. This can be achieved by a combination of a production tax and three labor-market policy instruments, namely, a va …- cancy subsidy, a layoff tax and unemployment benefits. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal setting of each of …

noncompliance in a dynamic context. In an empirical application, we evaluate the French labor market policy reform PARE which … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …