unemployment policies. In our model, firms face a pool of applicants and observe unemployment duration and a signal about … recent evidence from audit studies. Optimal policy takes into account that unemployment benefits can affect hiring … probabilities by making unemployment duration more or less informative and by changing the applications-per-vacancy ratio due to …

of liquidity provision on unemployment outcomes. Based on a RD Design, I find that granting unemployed workers with a … bonus equal to half of their previous monthly earnings decreases the probability of exiting unemployment within 8 weeks by … unemployment benefits decreases the same outcome by 1.9%. Then, theoretical results from Landais (2014) are used to combine these …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

, it is known that there is a reverse relation between unemployment and growth known as Okun's Law. This relation …, suggesting that every 1 point decrease in unemployment induces a 3 point increase in growth, is tested for many countries. In … difference in coefficients. At the same time, long term relation between growth and unemployment is tested with the use of time …

stage representing the risk of involuntary unemployment. The second step pertains the probability of being constrained in …