lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … for within-country trade. Our main finding is robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …. The preferred specification suggests that a 10 percent increase in total trade openness reduces unemployment by about one …

unemployment. What is required instead is deeper labor market reforms across a broader range of complementary policies and …

temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions …

Increases in the ins of unemployment during recessions are the result of two major forces: increased layoffs, or a fall … particularly important in the Great Recession in US. The results suggest that around three-quarters of unemployment dynamics are …

We estimate trend unemployment rates for Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia, states that span parts of the … Fourth District of the Federal Reserve System. Our estimated unemployment rate trend for the District as a whole stood at 5 ….7 percent in 2020:Q1 compared to a 4.7 percent observed unemployment rate within the District, implying a tight labor market by …

During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others … the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in … countries where unemployment remained high …

picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …