One of the main puzzles associated with the Great Recession has been the muted increase in recorded unemployment in the … unemployment, but also means that (i) significant numbers of workers are supplying fewer hours of work than they would like and (ii …

pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations …

pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …’s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …

increase during 2012, though unemployment was stable. The paper also investigates the microeconomic determinants of …

This paper considers some of the implications of the increase in UK unemployment since the beginning of the Great … Recession. The major finding is that the sharp increase in unemployment and decrease in employment is largely concentrated on …