unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to … also how skill formation or education affects unemployment among the remaining uneducated. We have developed a general … equilibrium model of a small open developing economy incorporating skill formation, unemployment of unskilled labour in the formal …

economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … demand and supply shocks are opposite to those of the standard case and result in a co-movement of unemployment and … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that fluctuations in the total …

labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …