increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …

facilitates an analysis of how wage setting and unemployment is affected by punishment policies, which is ignored in the previous …

both sectors, and (iii) reduces the unemployment rate. The effect of a higher audit rate is less clear. We find that a … ambiguous impact on unemployment and real wages. …

assistance. Our findings show that the assistance reduces unemployment among the treated, but also creates substantial … displacement leading to higher unemployment for the non-treated. By using detailed information on caseworker and job seeker … unemployment and reduced government spending …