Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

workforce during the Great Recession. Policy approaches to address high African American male unemployment are outlined in the … unemployment during the Great Recession in comparison to other groups and theoretical considerations -- African American men …

workforce during the Great Recession. Policy approaches to address high African American male unemployment are outlined in the …-2006 -- 2. African American Male Unemployment during the Great Recession in Comparison to Other Demographic Groups and …

The welfare cost of imperfect competition in the product and labor market as well as distortionary taxation is … quantified in a dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized to fit the U.S. economy. We find that the welfare cost of … characterized by distortionary taxation the welfare cost in the product market increases to 48.26 percent and 4.70 percent in the …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …, the welfare loss for workers is higher. On the other hand, in the steady-state, European workers, ceteris paribus, are … smaller training costs, so that the welfare implications of each type of economy are a priori ambiguous: no model dominates …

remarkable drop in the labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment after …

, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …