We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …

I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

Using information on desired and actual hours of work, we formulate a discrete choice model of constrained labor supply …

changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during … unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only …