We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

Almost all institutions - employment protection legislation, unions, wages, wage structure, unemployment insurance, etc … verdächtigt und schuldig gesprochen die tragische Entwicklung der Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa verursacht zu haben. US … Neutralität von Geldpolitik wurde diese bei der Suche nach den Ursachen europäischer Arbeitslosigkeit verschont. Tatsächlich …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between markets, in response to changing aggregate and local conditions … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a reduction in the rate of job loss for …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between markets, in response to changing aggregate and local conditions … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between markets, in response to changing aggregate and local conditions … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … rate from unemployment to employment. …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions …