The Czech Republic has experienced a remarkable decline in the unemployment rate but not in relative poverty. I address this and other facts by analysing the evolution of absolute and relative poverty over the 2004-2021 period. I first document a remarkable decline in absolute poverty in poorer...

This paper aims to examine the economic impact of the implementation of an unemployment insurance (UI) program for entrepreneurs in South Korea. Despite facing labor market risks similar to paid employees, entrepreneurs are often not eligible for UI in many countries. South Korea, where...

This paper studies the unemployment-output relationship from 1979 to 2019 in advanced countries. The paper offers three main contributions: it reports (i) structural and (ii) dynamic estimates that (iii) account for idiosyncratic and common shocks in a Structural Panel-VAR framework. The main...