The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future … shocks do not systematically lead to more persistent unemployment than monetary policy shocks, so these cannot explain the … rising persistence of unemployment. Second, monetary and fiscal policies can account for only part of the evolving …

The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future … shocks do not systematically lead to more persistent unemployment than monetary policy shocks, so these cannot explain the … rising persistence of unemployment. Second, monetary and fiscal policies can account for only part of the evolving …

Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …

This paper studies how industry specialization, diversification, and churning affect unemployment rates in Chinese … can significantly decrease unemployment rate; however, specializing in finance industry increases unemployment rate. In … unemployment rates in Chinese cities, possibly due to the higher degree of industry churning during the sample period. We also find …

This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters‟ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and …. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage point is associated with … regional level, is substantial in size, but statistically insignificant. At the municipality level, unemployment has a smaller …

unemployment at regional level. Positive effects can be observed for both young and mature workers, and are stronger for the latter … unemployment. The results for countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been to some extent less significant, due to … sizable reduction of unemployment. While the current analysis revealed some of the first-round impacts of the innovation …

-term unemployment in Romania has grown in both absolute and relative terms in the last few years, leading to increased expenditures …, both absolutely and in relation to unemployment benefits, for the support allowance and social assistance programs and for … private sector investment, helping to reduce unemployment and ultimately leading to the improvement of the living standards …