unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …

firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

workers produce more product varieties and thereby increase labor demand. We find that skills are associated with growth in … disproportionately large impact on unemployment during the current recession …

to measurable, short-horizon changes in labor market outcomes within and between generations. We then empirically analyze …

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …

We explore the response of employment (unemployment) skill differentials to skill-biased shifts in demand touched off … by the new and spreading technologies. We find that skill differentials in unemployment follow at least in part the same … differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment …

(i.e., unemployment) and easily integrates into theoretical models. We apply our filter to a unique linkage of 23.5m SSA … of persistent earnings losses associated with full year unemployment has increased by 50%. Using geography, education …

labor markets. We find that workers age 62 to 69 are responsive to the unemployment rate and to long-run fluctuations in … accounts and falling home equity will lead workers to delay retirement. Yet the weakness in the labor market and its impact on … March Current Population Survey to estimate models relating retirement decisions to fluctuations in equity, housing, and …