increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in … the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are … highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness. This paper shows that this critique also extends to unemployment …

unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish …

that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New … the economic analysis of unemployment insurance as it has evolved since the 1970s. …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness …

Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker … s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features … is that an optimal insurance program implies a declining sequence of unemployment compensation over the spell of …