Great Recession and the pandemic recession (aka the Great Contagion) can both be understood as being driven partially by …. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …, consequently, of output, and slow-down worker reallocation away from the sectors badly hit by the recession. …

Great Recession and the pandemic recession (aka the Great Contagion) can both be understood as being driven partially by …. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …, consequently, of output, and slow-down worker reallocation away from the sectors badly hit by the 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 …

fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply low growth and high unemployment. An empirical index is constructed. In the period …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

changes in labor taxes affect employment, unemployment, and inactivity rates in the European Union. The descriptive empirical …

employment rate since workers also apply for more disability and unemployment benefits. Moreover, most of them simply retire …