EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …

countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus on the main pillars of labour market institutions, as employment …

the local unemployment rate when more refugees arrive. The dynamic panel data estimates are robust to various sensitivity …

labor market policies. More generous unemployment support, which provided income replacement or programs to assist … unemployed workers find jobs, mitigated the negative effects for most of the population, although not youth. In contrast …, stricter employment protection legislation exacerbated the negative effects. We present further evidence that suggests the …

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates … focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added and … the unemployment invariance hypothesis in several countries appears to reflect some rigidities that prevent the …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment …COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …