COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …

hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally. Drawing from a unique geo-referenced dataset of unemployment spells in the … unemployment duration, distinguishing between short- and medium-term effects. This is done by implementing an original two …

unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income …-up process of the Argentine economy nor could it be expected to be a big loser. So, the huge amount of unemployment experienced … wage inequality widened relatively more between unskilled and skilled workers. The reasons for the persistence of …

unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income … drawn from the analysis of the Argentine case. -- Trade liberalization ; unemployment ; skilled labor ; inequality …-up process of the Argentine economy nor could it be expected to be a big loser. So, the huge amount of unemployment experienced …

hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally. Drawing from a unique geo-referenced dataset of unemployment spells in the … unemployment duration, distinguishing between short- and medium-term effects. This is done by implementing an original two … the start of the policy). -- enterprise zone ; evaluation of programs ; regional policies ; unemployment …

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …

The impact of financial crises on the youth unemployment rate (YUR), compared to the total unemployment rate (UR), is … on UR. Similar results are found for the unemployment impacts of GDP growth lagged 1 year and institutional variables …

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …