unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …In this paper we investigate Oswald's hypothesis according to which higher homeownership rates increase aggregate …

Homeownership, though it brings both private and social benefits, entails substantial fixed costs. Indeed, standard … personal financial advice suggests that homeownership should only be undertaken when one's job situation is stable and job … renters to become homeowners. An examination of job durations suggests that homeownership is correlated with longer job …

In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … dynamic stochastic search-matching model with heterogeneous workers, where aggregate shocks to productivity fuel up the cycle … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks …

I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor …. The distribution of unemployment worker types adjusts slowly, which amplifies job creation in the short run. In the long … run, falling unemployment curtails the firms' vacancy posting. The model closely matches time-series moments from U …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle. …

According to search and matching theory, a greater availability of unemployed workers should make it easier for a firm …

account for large fluctuations in vacancies, unemployment, and job-to-job transitions; it provides a rationale for the Jobless … Beveridge Curve (the unemployment-vacancy locus). Each of these phenomena is matched in the data. …

-cycle migration. In this model unemployment arises from search and matching frictions. We endogenize migration via the unemployed …Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This … reinforced the interest in labor mobility as stabilization tool against the background of heterogeneous labor market conditions …

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when … unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low …