Tunisia has one of the highest unemployment rates within the Middle East and Central Asia. We look at the extent to … which institutional factors explain those high unemployment levels. We also assess unemployment cyclicality, by looking at … institutional factors that affect labor demand explain not only about a quarter of the unemployment rate increase in Tunisia, but …

in employment outcomes. Overall, we find that higher separation rates of young workers play a disproportionate role in … explaining heterogeneity of employment outcomes across age groups, while differences in finding rates are somewhat more important …

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 …

. The pandemic and related containment measures had a large negative impact on employment, labor force participation … unemployment. Our results indicate that industry effects were a crucial driver of labor market outcomes for different groups of … of employment in the hardest hit industries. We also find empirical evidence for the need to improve childcare and …