The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …

unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income … drawn from the analysis of the Argentine case. -- Trade liberalization ; unemployment ; skilled labor ; inequality …-up process of the Argentine economy nor could it be expected to be a big loser. So, the huge amount of unemployment experienced …

of COVID-19. This occasional paper assesses the impact of this crisis on key labour market variables, such as (un-)employment …

In this article I set out to present the situation in terms of unemployment rate, the number of registered unemployed … but also the share of unemployed nationwide in the period 2020-2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate … state with a technical unemployment benefit, which led to the highest unemployment rate in the last two years, resulting in …

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …