We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the US over the past three decades. We propose an accounting framework … that allows us to estimate the overall amount of mismatch unemployment as well as the contribution of the frictions that … caused the mismatch. Mismatch is quantitatively important for unemployment and the cyclical behavior of mismatch unemployment …

The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has … remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of unemployment relative to historical norms reflects … rate of unemployment, implying that conventional monetary and fiscal policy should not be used in an attempt to return …

features of the Beveridge curve and frictional unemployment in EU countries, with a view to isolate temporary changes in the … vacancy-unemployment relationship from structural shifts affecting the efficiency of labour market matching. Second, it … crisis. The lengthening of unemployment spells appears to be a significant driver of matching efficiency especially after the …

strukturellen Arbeitslosigkeit beitragen dürfte. Für einen spürbaren Erfolg fehlen konsequentere Reformen des ausreichende …’s predominantly structural unemployment. A promising strategy would require forceful reform of social welfare institutions prohibiting …

erwarten viele Beobachter zum Herbst einen dramatischen Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit mit einer baldigen Überschreitung der Vier … den Sommermonaten August und September aller Voraussicht nach völlig ruhig. Saisonal bedingt geht die Arbeitslosigkeit …

Frühjahr 2009 die Arbeitsmarktlage. Das Papier erläutert die Technik der Prognose der Arbeitslosigkeit unter Nutzung der …

geschätzt werden, bestätigen insbesondere die zentrale Bedeutung der Arbeitslosigkeit für die Höhe der Fehlzeiten. Weiterhin …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …