This paper is aimed at investigating the effects of government intervention through unemployment benefits on …

The misery index (the unweighted sum of unemployment and inflation rates) was probably the first attempt to develop a … improved version of the index, mainly based on output and unemployment. Specifically, this new Okun's index measures the level … gap in growth rate terms; and (3) cyclical unemployment. This dynamic approach differs substantially from the standard one …

The Spanish economy was the most hit by the Great Recession. It suffered a greater decrease in the gross domestic … coincided with a huge increase in unemployment. Therefore, our main objective is to investigate the moderating role of exports …

differences between the Great Recession and the start of the COVID-19 Recession. In the Great Recession, the loss in aggregate … temporary contracts. In contrast, in the early stages of the COVID-19 Recession, approximately sixty percent of the drop in …

domestic to tradable industries. This leads to a loss in industry specific human capital, causing a jump in unemployment. The …