This paper examines age- and gender-specific employment sensitivity to growth across different economic sectors. By …-, gender-, and sector-specific employment intensities to growth. Our study examines the ability of growth in different sectors … to generate total employment opportunities. Results show that regardless of gender or age, the employment growth is …

Purpose This paper explores the evidence of a long-run co-movement between aggregate unemployment insurance spending … and the labor force participation rate in the USA. The unemployment insurance (UI) program tends to expand during an … economic downturn and contract during an expansion. UI may incentivize unemployment and may also facilitate better matching in …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of the 2012 reform on flows from UB to employment. The reform increased … the steepness of the time profile of unemployment benefits by raising the initial benefit, lowering its long-term level … system led to an increase in flows towards employment or inactivity either in the aggregate or when comparing groups of …