unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We … first investigate the fluctuations in steady state unemployment, and then in current unemployment in order to take into … account the unemployment deviations from equilibrium. Our results show the dominant role of the job finding rate in accounting …

structural change. Our objective is to shed light on the way labor market institutions affect aggregate employment, job …

unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing …

by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly … employment histories. -- Unemployment ; on-the-job search ; employment histories …

unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment …