marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the …

pronounced. The adverse effect of higher unemployment on life satisfaction is partially offset by the positive impact of lower …

We analyze the effects of corruption and institutional quality on the quality of business regulation. Our key findings … indicate that corruption negatively affects the quality of regulation and that general institutional quality is insignificant … regulation, over wider institutional reform. -- Business Regulation ; Economic Policy ; Institutional Quality ; Corruption …

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market … temporary severing of employment relationships followed by a phase of more standard labour market search and matching, we use … persistence in depressed employment rates. …

in employment and aggregate hours worked between February 2020 and April 2020, while accounting for normal monthly … aged 20-64, alongside a 15 percent decline in employment. We characterize the distribution of work lost, finding that …

"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while … 80% of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of those … waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that a reasonably quick rebound of the labour market may …