Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

workers’ outside options. We document the negative selection into self-employment when workers enter from unemployment, and … contract out of unemployment. These facts call for a revision of active labor market policies in place …

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

This paper analyses how labour market heterogeneity affects unemployment, productivity and business cycle dynamics that … skilled workers increases the natural rate of unemployment and reduces total factor productivity with long- run effects on the … Beveridge curves. Skill-specific labour market heterogeneity leads to a attening of the Phillips curve as wages and unemployment …