economic outcomes. The question is whether higher transparency comes at some cost, i.e. higher unemployment or higher … unemployment variability. Firstly, the article shows in a theoretical model that opaqueness regarding the central bank …’s preferences does not necessarily lead to lower unemployment. Secondly, the paper analyses the main theoretical results of other …

This paper presents estimates of the effect of unemployment benefit extensions during the Great Recession on … unemployment and labor force participation. Unlike many recent studies of this subject, our estimates, following the work of … of benefit extensions is likely modest, with a 90 percent confidence interval of the effect on the unemployment rate …

unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …

participation rate and employment-population ratio but had little discernible effect on the unemployment rate. Factors robustly …

unemployment GAP. This indicator is useful for policy analysis as it is useful to forecast headline inflation, it also complements …Although the unemployment rate is traditionally used to diagnose the current state of the labor market, this indicator …

support measures, in the short term, the Romanian labour market is facing the unemployment rate increase, at least in 2020, as …

-border risk-sharing is limited, giving a role to a federal unemployment-based transfer scheme. Member states control local labor … Monetary Union, we find notable welfare gains if the federal scheme's payouts take the member states' past unemployment level … as a reference point. Member states' control over policies other than unemployment benefits can limit generosity during …