This paper uses variation in unemployment caused by the 2008 recession to analyse socio- economic gaps in graduate … family backgrounds graduate during a recession they are more likely to become unemployed, to work part-time, and to earn less …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …

During the typical recovery from U.S. post-War period economic downturns, employment recovers to its pre-recession … achieve its pre-recession benchmark. We propose a formal empirical model of business cycles with recovery periods to …

countercyclical. Separations increase in upswing, following the accession increase, and decline in recession. Unemployment during … recession is not, to a large extent, due to an increase in the rate at which workers separate from their employers, as …

In modern economies, sharp increases in unemployment from major adverse shocks result in long periods of abnormal … unemployment and low output. This chapter investigates the processes that account for these persistent slumps. The data are from …

Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard …. Immigrantsﾒ labor market outcomes began deteriorating even before the recession was officially underway, largely as a result of … the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor …

Unemployment in the U.S. has risen dramatically since the start of the recession in December 2007, going from about 6 … unemployment and not in the labor force (NLF) look like an "anti-discouraged worker" effect -- during the recession people are more … Statistics. The methodology is to analyze the transition rates and implied steady-state levels of employment and unemployment …