In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across … countries and years. The effect is thereby moderated by the generosity of unemployment benefits. Exploiting across- and within … mothers', unemployment. We further test the robustness of our results considering unemployment benefits jointly with social …

decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …

advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …

We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …

large panel dataset of European countries, we find that individuals who experienced high unemployment under a regime of low … unemployment benefits are more in favor of redistribution later in life and state an orientation more oriented towards the left …. However, negative economic shocks in an environment with a very generous unemployment insurance are related to less support of …