The coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created both a public health crisis
and an economic crisis in the United States. The pandemic has disrupted lives, pushed the …

Displaced workers experience reduced earnings for many years. While this empirical
phenomenon is well established, the theory of displacement‐induced earnings loss is …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a unique transboundary crisis which has disrupted people's way
of life more dramatically than any event in generations. Given the ambiguity surrounding the …

The scarring theory predicts that the effect of present unemployment will potentially last for
the individual's entire remaining working lifetime. This paper investigates how self …

Mainstream public finance research has largely ignored race issues. This paper calls on
public finance economists to explore racial issues more extensively. The obvious reasons …

The objective of this article is to assess how the duration of unemployment spells for
Macedonian youth affects their later employment (employment “scarring”) and wage …

This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the labour market security dimension of
the OECD's job quality framework, thereby complementing the analysis in Chapter 3 of the …

Abstract The recent Great Recession highlighted that long-term unemployment spells may
entail persistent losses in workers' human capital. This paper extends the life-cycle model of …

After being displaced from their jobs, workers experience reduced earnings for many years
and are at greater risks of other problems as well. The ills suffered by displaced workers …

Are your future employment prospects affected by past periods of unemployment? And does
it matter how long you were unemployed? The average duration of unemployment has …