We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

business background (CEO governors), focusing on income growth, unemployment, private investment, and income inequality … private capital stock, and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Income …

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

In the midst of sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment benefit (UB) eligibility extensions … ‘laws of economics' to warn that the extensions may be responsible for much of the current unemployment crisis. This … eligibility rules are not effectively enforced, so any income replacement must reduce work incentives and increase unemployment …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

This study examines the relationship between unemployment and labor force participation to judge the presence of the … discouraged worker/added worker/unemployment invariance effect in the US labor market, spanning the period 1976-2014. Panel unit … unemployment and labor force participation rates, while the impact of unemployment on labor force participation is negative …

average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …