- cancy subsidy, a layoff tax and unemployment benefits. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal setting of each of … replacement rate of unemployment insurance should all rise in recessions. We find this confirmed in a calibration targeted to the …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

cyclicality of task changes among employer-to-employer movers contrasts sharply with that of hires from unemployment. We link our …-to-employer transitions and a sullying effect tied to employer changes through unemployment. …

Unemployment insurance (UI) acts both as a disincentive for labor supply and as a demand stimulus, which may explain … disincentive effects arising from the largest expansion of UI in U.S. history, the pandemic unemployment benefits. Using high …

German unemployment insurance system and resulted in a significant reduction in unemployment benefits for the long …-term unemployed. In this paper, we use an incomplete-market model with search unemployment to evaluate the macro-economic and welfare …-run (noncyclical)unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases …

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market … persistence in depressed employment rates. …

of two waves of longitudinal data permits the analysis of the persistence of obesity. Results show that overall childhood … particular when depth, severity and persistence of obesity are accounted for. Girls whose mothers fail to complete secondary …