/4 of mismatches is efficient and attenuates polarization and unemployment over the cycle …

reveals that 1/4 of mismatches is efficient and attenuates polarization and unemployment over the cycle …

significant part of the currently rising unemployment in Austria may be attributed to structural changes. Those structural changes …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job … vacancy creation and employment and a rise in unemployment …

Can governmental policies mitigate the effects of recessions on unemployment? We study whether the Swiss short …-time work (STW) program reduced unemployment in the 2009-2015 period using quarterly establishment-level panel data linking … several administrative data sources. We compare changes in permanent layoffs into unemployment, hiring from unemployment …