hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally. Drawing from a unique geo-referenced dataset of unemployment spells in the … unemployment duration, distinguishing between short- and medium-term effects. This is done by implementing an original two …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates … are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since …

flow value of unemployment …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It … unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is persistence in long term unemployment, and that the employment … significant financial crisis and a collapse of the housing market bubble have had large increases in unemployment and long term …

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by …