One of the most striking features of European labor markets is the high incidence of longterm
unemployment. In this chapter, we review the literature on its causes and consequences …

Distributional regression models that overcome the traditional focus on relating the
conditional mean of the response to explanatory variables and instead target either the …

In this book Nancy Cartwright argues against a vision of a uniform world completely ordered
under a single elegant theory, and proposes instead a patchwork of laws of nature …

This article uses seven waves of panel data to test for social norms in labor market status.
The unemployed's well-being is shown to be strongly positively correlated with reference …

We develop a model where agents obtain information about job opportunities through an
explicitly modeled network of social contacts. We show that employment is positively …

Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue
that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and …

Post-World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low
unemployment, followed by a plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s …

This paper uses US local areas as a laboratory to test for long-term impacts of the Great
Recession. In administrative longitudinal data, I estimate that exposure to a 1 percentage …

From the perspective of a wide range of labor market outcomes, the recession that began in
2007 represents the deepest downturn in the postwar era. Early on, the nature of labor …

Joblessness leaves permanent scars on individuals. They not only lose income during
periods of joblessness they are also further scarred by these experiences when they find …