workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and … contact arrival rate on the structural exit rate from unemployment is ambiguous, we estimate this model using individual … unemployment duration data. Our results show that the exit rate from unemployment increases with the arrival rate of job contacts …

has a core-periphery structure. In each model, we explore the labour market outcomes (job creation, unemployment and wages …

frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance … volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment. …

of unemployment and vacancies to negative shocks to the aggregate productivity of labor. …

A search-theoretic general equilibrium model of frictional unemployment is shown to be consistent with some of the key … regularities of unemployment over the business cycle. In the model the return to a job moves stochastically. Agents can choose … unemployment. …

model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …

This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s … the probability of unemployment spells ending with moves into full and part-time employment, self-employment and economic … inactivity. The data show that the median duration of unemployment spells among men, at 5 months, is almost double that for women …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …