a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted …

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 …

A vast literature has investigated how unemployment insurance (UI) affects labor supply. However, the distorting effect … deterministic relationship between previous earnings and unemployment benefits. The ran domized assignment of benefits created by … the kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells …

A vast literature has investigated how unemployment insurance (UI) affects labor supply. However, the distorting effect … deterministic relationship between previous earnings and unemployment benefits. The randomized assignment of benefits created by the … kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using …

Conventional measures of unemployment do not capture all dimensions of joblessness. A case in point is underemployment … among employed workers, also frequently referred to as parttime unemployment. Workers in this category are employed during a … unemployment. By the end of 2009, part-time unemployment stood at almost 5 percent of the labor force in the OECD area. …

-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …

that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …