) Regarding gender differences: transition involving non-participation matters more in the variance of female unemployment and … employment, informal employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. We compute the contribution of each transition rate to … fluctuations in unemployment and informality rates. We identify five stylized facts: (i) Nearly 40% of the fluctuations in the …

hire much more workers from unemployment than large firms, and that they do so at the very beginning of an economic …. Transitions from unemployment to employment at large firms are generally found to be more (pro-)cyclical. However, this stylised …

of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

earnings losses for young workers generated by unemployment: unemployment represents time forgone in terms of human capital … downturn, as documented in the empirical literature. At the aggregate level, the framework delivers youth unemployment rates … that are higher and more sensitive to fluctuations in aggregate productivity than total unemployment rates. Additionally …

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 …