mainly driven via STW. US unemployment rose at an unprecedented rate, but unlike in previous recessions, it was mostly driven …

pandemic recession. We first measure the contribution of temporary layoffs to unemployment dynamics over the period 1979 to the … due to "loss-of-recall", whereby workers in temporary-layoff unemployment lose their job permanently and do so at higher … both temporary-layoff and jobless unemployment. The model captures well pre-pandemic unemployment dynamics and shows how …

We examine the effects of an experimental job-counseling program targeting Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients in …

lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … for within-country trade. Our main finding is robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …. The preferred specification suggests that a 10 percent increase in total trade openness reduces unemployment by about one …