responses for total, youth, and long-term unemployment are estimated using local projections for a panel of 20 OECD countries … statistically significant increases in all three unemployment measures. On average, credit contractions in the sample increase total … unemployment rates by nearly 1 percentage point at the peak. This effect is even stronger for youth unemployment. The persistent …

four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment … of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail … sentences. For example, wage subsidies reduce unemployment, the crime rates of employed and unemployed workers, and improve …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …

distribution, wages, and unemployment. This comparison is important not only because it compares developing vs. developed country …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …