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 …

with the unemployment rate. It also predicts that the share of newly created jobs fulfilled by current inhabitants of a … city increases with the unemployment rate. I test this model with data from the United States census between 1980 and 2000 … city with 3.7% unemployment the average local employment multiplier is 0.91 for current inhabitants and 0.60 for migrants …

dissatisfaction reflects poor economic conditions; unemployment is particularly important. Using individual level data for 16 Western …. Finally, while effects of growth and unemployment rates are the same across demographic subsets, the effect of inflation is …

workforce during the Great Recession. Policy approaches to address high African American male unemployment are outlined in the … unemployment during the Great Recession in comparison to other groups and theoretical considerations -- African American men …

business background (CEO governors), focusing on income growth, unemployment, private investment, and income inequality … private capital stock, and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Income …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …