. For instance, a more generous unemployment insurance system reduces the crime rate of the unemployed but its effect on the … overall effect on crime is positive but quantitatively small. Wage subsidies reduce unemployment and crime rates of employed … and unemployed workers, and improve society’s welfare. Hiring subsidies reduce unemployment but they can raise the crime …

blue-collar occupations, and real wages for workers with little education are declining. A rising share of unemployment is … unemployment and then, for those who found work, their new wages and other job attributes. The evidence shows that workers from …

raises all boats to the same level; disadvantaged groups still have above-average unemployment (and black men have below …

The combination of very low unemployment rates and somewhat limited wage and salary pressures has called into question … marginally attached workers is extremely low, and their inclusion in an expanded measure of unemployment is unlikely to change …

has increased the rate of unemployment that is consistent with stable inflation. This rate is known as the NAIRU, the non …-accelerating-inflation rate of unemployment, the unemployment rate below which inflation tends to rise, and above which inflation tends to fall …

business cycle contraction, total employment declines by about 1.5 percent, the unemployment rate rises by 2.7 percentage …. The aggregate statistics on employment and unemployment mask economically important information about the composition of …. Using a new data set that assembles the flows of workers into and out of unemployment, employment, and not …