unemployment in the wake of the Great Recession. …To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are …

industries experienced larger job losses in non-tradable sectors during the Great Recession. This was arguably because laid …

industries experienced larger job losses in non-tradable sectors during the Great Recession. This was arguably because laid …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of …

not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …, just as in the Great Recession we anticipate deflation in the near future, coupled with rising joblessness and recession. …

This paper studies the mechanisms driving the persistently high unemployment rate during the last recession and mild … recovery. Previous studies have examined the demographic aspect of the recession. We focus on specific industries. Consequently …, we propose a methodology to decompose changes in the unemployment rate into worker inflows and outflows across industry …

prices, unemployment rates, and interest rates in nine countries that took distinctive approaches in tackling the pandemic …, where we introduce lockdowns as shocks to unemployment. Based on impulse response functions, we find that in most countries … the unemployment rate rose, interest rates fell or turned negative, and prices fell initially following the implementation …