associated with a more regulated labor market, lower unemployment benefit replacement rates, and a smaller tax wedge on labor. We …

in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from … impact of long-term unemployment appears to have fallen substantially in Ireland post-recession. The results from a …This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment …

-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

quantitatively underestimates the correlation of structural unemployment rates across countries. This mirrors the well-known finding … by Shimer (2005) by which thestandard search-and-matching model predicts too small fluctuations of unemployment rates …

, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. …

period 1985{2006. We show that policy myopia is associated with more regulated labour markets, lower unemployment benefit …