This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the …. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the …. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

current institutions, past performance during recessions, and the policy measures adopted during the pandemic. Emphasis is …

-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 …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …