discouraged and frustrated to look for work. Unemployment rate is highest among people with secondary education, followed by …

low persistence of informality in Chile, implying an average duration of nearly 3.5 months, and estimate the contributions … of labor market transitions among formality, informality, unemployment, and inactivity. The flow into informality from … unemployment is the main force accounting for persistence, which suggests that informality is a temporary shelter from joblessness …

-employment lack public insurance to mitigate risk but offer valuable routes out of unemployment. Workers face complex tradeoffs … provide substantial insurance against unemployment risk. Exploring counterfactual policies, I show how the insurance values …

more efficient. It aligns incentives, reduces unemployment, and minimizes fiscal costs, highlighting the necessity of …

changes in supposedly employment unfriendly institutions like the generosity and duration of unemployment benefits. At the …Unemployment in the big continental European economies like France and Germany has been substantially increasing since … the mid 1970s. So far it has been difficult to empirically explain the increase in unemployment in these countries via …