Subsidizing the geographical mobility of unemployed workers may improve welfare by relaxing their financial constraints … and allowing them to find jobs in more prosperous regions. We exploit regional variation in the promotion of mobility … mobility - as intended - causes job seekers to increase their search radius, apply for and accept distant jobs. At the same …

We develop a multi-sectoral matching model to predict the impact of the lockdown on the US unemployment, considering … and business closures that hit the workers with the first level of education explains the abruptness of the unemployment …-crisis unemployment level could be reached in 2024 in a scenario with a double wave. In the same scenario, a calibration on French data …

reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of …

This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … (1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …