Potential workers are classified as unemployed if they seek work but are not working. The
unemployed population contains two groups—those with jobs and those without jobs. Those …

The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas
in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics …

The COVID-19 global pandemic and the lockdown policies enacted to mitigate it have had
profound effects on the labour market. Understanding these effects requires us to obtain and …

The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well
established fact, the reasons are still disputed. We use monthly search diaries from Swiss …

Jobseekers, especially young people with little experience on the job market, face several
challenges. They need to know which jobs are suited for them, where to find them, how to …

Almost 20% of all male employees in Germany who become unemployed return to their
previous employers. Such temporary layoffs and the subsequent recalls are often used by …

In a randomized controlled trial in Austria, lower caseloads in public employment offices led
to more meetings of the unemployed with their caseworkers, more job offers, more program …

In a randomised controlled trial in Austria, lowering caseloads for caseworkers in a Public
Employment Office led to more meetings with unemployed clients, more job offers, more …

Joblessness is highly seasonal. To analyze how households adapt to seasonal joblessness,
we introduce a measure of seasonal work interruptions premised on the idea that a …

A quantitative approach was adopted for the study. The study population consisted of four
hundred retail employees, 200 research instruments were administered and 102 usable …