We propose that the natural rate of unemployment has an active role in the business cycle, in contrast to the … Phillips-curve framework of low – often extremely low – response of inflation to unemployment could be the result of fairly … most Phillips-curve studies, that conclude that inflation has little relation to unemployment. We suggest that the flat …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of …

Unemployment recoveries in the US have been inexorable. Between 1948 and 2019, the annual reduction in the unemployment … irresistible force toward restoring full employment. In the aftermath of a recession, unless another crisis intervenes …, unemployment continues to glide down. Occasionally, unemployment rises rapidly during an economic crisis, while most of the time …

expanded tremendously in April 2020, at the trough of the pandemic recession. They wait out periods of non-work with the … understanding that their jobs still exist and that they will be recalled. We show that the resulting temporary-layoff unemployment … mostly dissipated by the end of 2020. Potential workers without jobs constitute what we call jobless unemployment. Shocks …

, lost health insurance due to a higher unemployment rate alone during the 2007-09 recession. We conclude with a discussion … from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of … 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in the state unemployment rate is associated with a 1.67 percentage …

, lost health insurance due to a higher unemployment rate alone during the 2007-09 recession. We conclude with a discussion … from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of … 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in the state unemployment rate is associated with a 1.67 percentage …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …