evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual … labor market-crime and the sanctions-crime relations. It concludes that there is a labor market-crime link but that this …

from unemployment to income inequality. It makes three points: 1) The U.S. has incarcerated an extraordinarily high … propensity to commit crime among the non-institutional population. The paper focuses attention on the possibility that the …

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a … major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to … live up to expectations. The level and duration of unemployment increased substantially in the downturn and the growth of …

retirement to an aging population. Boosted by the huge CARES (March 2020) and ARPA (April 2021) rescue packages, the early …

intensity of idiosyncratic labor demand shocks drove big declines in the incidence and rate of unemployment. This evidence …Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent or less by the mid …-level employment growth rates. We interpret this decline as a decrease in the intensity of idiosyncratic labor demand shocks, a key …

implications of labor supply and search analysis but not with the view that long unemployment spells create a class of …This paper uses the "Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida Y Trabajo" (EGVT) -- a survey of the labor force activity of over … 61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and …

This study contrasts the labor market performance of the U.S. and OECD Europe in the 1980s and critically evaluates the … view that the U.S. has generated more jobs because its labor market is more 'flexible'. The study finds that the greater … instance in youth versus adult wages, helped limit U.S. unemployment, other aspects, for instance regional wage, show no …

-displacement earnings if displaced in mass-layoff events that occur when the national unemployment rate is below 6 percent. They lose a … staggering 2.8 years of pre-displacement earnings if displaced when the unemployment rate exceeds 8 percent. These results … opportunities respond to contemporaneous economic conditions. Finally, we confront leading models of unemployment fluctuations with …

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … the supply side of labor markets, we discuss key features of the interrelations between population growth and the labor … force. These include the lags between population growth and labor force participation; the independent effects on labor …