of a whole business cycle, i.e. 2000‐2013. We focus on Spain – a country hit hard by unemployment increases in downturns …. Our results indicate that unemployment outs are crucial in understanding changes in unemployment rates in Spain … countries and led to gender convergence in aggregate unemployment rates. In this paper we seek the sources of this recent …

Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this … paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The … first argument focuses on the large increase in unemployment among construction workers. The second argument is that falling …

unemployment across a sample of OECD countries. Using an incomplete markets variant of the fair wage real business cycle model …, increases in the gross replacement rate of public unemployment insurance are shown to increase the volatility of employment, and … which unemployment is endogenised in the model. …

Australia has experienced a varied track record on unemployment. For the third quarter of the 20th century unemployment … averaged 2.0 per cent. This is bracketed by average unemployment rates of 8.6 and 7.4 per cent in the second and fourth quarter … economy. Two simulation experiments are considered. In the first we study the effect of varying the unemployment benefit on …

unemployment across a sample of OECD countries. Using an incomplete markets variant of the fair wage real business cycle model …, increases in the gross replacement rate of public unemployment insurance are shown to increase the volatility of employment, and … which unemployment is endogenised in the model. …

partially due to relative changes in the type of jobs available at these times. Unemployment Insurance (UI) helps individuals … transition through difficult economic situations such as periods of unemployment, and underemployment. While UI provides … insurance to households by helping them “smooth consumption†during a period of unemployment, studies have found evidence of …

In this paper, we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle on unemployment duration …. We construct durations for individuals entering unemployment from a longitudinal sample of Spanish men in 1987 …–94. Estimated discrete hazard models indicate that receipt of unemployment benefits significantly reduces the hazard of leaving …