Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

unemployment rate) and the labor force participation rate. This paper proposes an adjustment to the calculation of the EPOP using …

unemployment flows to forecast the unemployment rate. We pay particular attention to flows-based approaches - the more reduced … unemployment flows are useful in forecasting the unemployment rate. We find that any approach that considers unemployment inflow …. Its usefulness is amplified at specific points in the business cycle when the unemployment rate is away from the longer …

The CARES Act implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis dramatically increases the generosity of unemployment … insurance (UI) benefits, triggering concerns about its substantial impact on unemployment. This paper combines a labor market … search-matching model with the SIR-type infection dynamics to study the effects of CARES UI on both unemployment and …

emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we …

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

proxy for individual unemployment status using regional unemployment rates, we find that individual unemployment is the … strongest predictor of default. We find that individual unemployment increases the probability of default by 5 - 13 percentage …