The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of the unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

In modern economies, sharp increases in unemployment from major adverse shocks result in long periods of abnormal … unemployment and low output. This chapter investigates the processes that account for these persistent slumps. The data are from …

2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to …. In the periphery countries, the reduction in unemployment rates is relatively pronounced, while in the core countries it …

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 …

In mid-2021, 26 states halted participation in all or some federal emergency unemployment benefits (EUB) programs …

low-paid workers' submarkets. The model fits the job finding, job separation, and unemployment rates well. It also … of the aggregate shock that allows generating the US labor market fluctuations has a correlation with unemployment that …

. The government however lost the elections. This paper uses unique survey data to examine whether the high unemployment … associated with market reform contributed to the election outcome. High unemployment did have an effect but it was small and does … not explain the election loss. In fact, many in the population, including the unemployed, believed that high unemployment …