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 … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …

- cancy subsidy, a layoff tax and unemployment benefits. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal setting of each of … replacement rate of unemployment insurance should all rise in recessions. We find this confirmed in a calibration targeted to the …

"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in … change. The proposed framework offers a novel explanation for the observed divergence of unemployment rates across economies … adoption. The results of the paper challenge the popular, but controversial, view that blames generous unemployment insurance …

I study the impact of Canada's expansive immigration policy launched in 2016 on labour shortages in six regions of the … curve, which draws the classical inverse relation between the job vacancy rate and the unemployment rate, before, during …La présente étude analyse l'effet de la politique d'immigration expansive du Canada amorcée en 2016 sur la pénurie de …