the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …

made in terms of several macroeconomic indicators, GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Current Account Balances, and debt. …

unemployment in two largest economic regions in the world - the United States (US) and the Euro area (EA). For this purpose we … addition to local effects we find foreign uncertainty shocks influence the Euro area but not the US unemployment. Moreover we …

Canadian unemployment rate in booms and busts. We find strong evidence in favor of asymmetric spillover effects. Unemployment … of the 2-year ahead forecast error of the Canadian unemployment rate in periods of slack vs. just 2% during economic … of the latter, lead to a temporary increase in the Canadian unemployment rate. Evidence of asymmetric spillover effects …

increase in economic policy uncertainty on unemployment in recessions and expansions. We find the response of unemployment to … confirms that the contribution of EPU shocks to the volatility of unemployment at business cycle frequencies is markedly larger …

This paper examines the dynamic relationships that exist between output growth and unemployment and assesses the role … support for the hypothesis of non-linearity in the dynamic relationship between output and unemployment. We therefore … dynamic relationship is non-linear and hump-shaped. At unemployment rates below the threshold of 5.5%, the relationship is …