Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this … paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The … first argument focuses on the large increase in unemployment among construction workers. The second argument is that falling …

This paper identifies the effect of variation in government-backed loan supply on unemployment exploiting regional …. This variation helps disentangling supply from demand effects. Higher loan supply reduces unemployment. Increasing the … between CHF 39,700 and CHF 52,400 per year. These costs are somewhat lower than unemployment benefits associated with the …

application of mandatory lockdowns contributed to a sharp fall in production and a rise in unemployment, inducing an expansionary …

application of mandatory lockdowns contributed to a sharp fall in production and a rise in unemployment, inducing an expansionary …

This paper tests whether the impact of labour taxes on unemployment is symmetric with respect to increases and … component model to account for the fact that unemployment rates and labour taxes are non-stationary but not co integrated. We … rate of unemployment. For Anglo-Saxon countries, no impact of labour taxes on unemployment is found. …

the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … have mixed effects on unemployment. A wage shock raises the unemployment rate, while a reduction in the separations lowers … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment …

This paper identifies the effect of variation in government-backed loan supply on unemployment exploiting regional …. This variation helps disentangling supply from demand effects. Higher loan supply reduces unemployment. Increasing the … between CHF 39,700 and CHF 52,400 per year. These costs are somewhat lower than unemployment benefits associated with the …