in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a reduction in the rate of job loss for …

the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search … unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …