risk of persisting unemployment, however, remain specific problems of the elderly. Government sponsored programs to support …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

We develop a model where workers, anticipating the possibility of unemployment, invest in connections to access …

We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate …-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to an increase in low birth weight and preterm babies of respectively 1.3 and … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health …

part-time workers. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate led to an average decline in real hourly wages … of new hires are not helpful for understanding the behaviour of unemployment over the business cycle. …

This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job …-to-job flows, employment separations by reason, flows between inactivity and the labour force and flows by education. I decompose … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …