The current expansion has delivered the lowest unemployment rates in decades, yet nominal wage growth has remained … relatively contained. This suggests to some a shift in the historical relationship between unemployment and wage growth. We look … real wage growth with respect to unemployment has fallen recently, a result that is not due to a compositional shift toward …

This paper contributes to the search theory of unemployment by endogenously generating matching functions for skilled …

on the basis of the falling unemployment rate. Moreover, examining the relationship between measures of displacement and …

environments, we find that severance payments reduce unemployment, produce negative insurance effects and improve levels. …

in the ability of disadvantaged households to supplement unemployment-induced earnings losses. I use panel data from two …

worker enters self-employment, he loses eligibility to receive unemployment insurance benefits—at least until he returns to …, higher local unemployment rates lead workers to self- select into self-employment, as does past unemployment experience. The …