This paper explains the divergent behavior of European and US unemployment rates using a job market matching model of the labor market with an interaction between shocks and institutions. It shows that a reduction in TFP growth rates, an increase in real interest rates, and an increase in tax...

In this paper we study the effects of shocks (a slowdown in TFP growth and an increase in the real interest rate) in a model with endogenous job destruction and job creation. We show that both increase the job destruction margin and the job rejection margin and, thus, the unemployment rate....