We conduct a résumé audit to estimate the impact of unemployment and underemployment on the employment prospects facing … recent college graduates. We find no evidence that employers use current or past unemployment spells, regardless of their … obtained while completing one's degree reduces the negative effects of underemployment substantially. …

Can governmental policies mitigate the effects of recessions on unemployment? We study whether the Swiss short …-time work (STW) program reduced unemployment in the 2009-2015 period using quarterly establishment-level panel data linking … several administrative data sources. We compare changes in permanent layoffs into unemployment, hiring from unemployment …

labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global …