what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany … reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business … disentangling periods of low and high unemployment we find that the effect of unemployment on new business formation is only …

rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of … Monitoring Survey. Our results indicate that while higher rates of unemployment make workers feel less job secure, the wage …

in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a reduction in the rate of job loss for …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …

underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching …. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

discriminate based on a year of entry to a firm, and develops an equilibrium model of wages and unemployment. We solve for the … dynamics of wages and unemployment under conditions of downward wage rigidity, where forward looking firms take into account …

-to-job flows and labour force entries and exits. Employed job search is shown to have a substantial impact on unemployment dynamics … but a negligible one on the level of unemployment. More on-the-job search leads to lower unemployment inflow and outflow …, i.e. a more stagnant unemployment pool. With employed job search, the stock of vacancies is more cyclically sensitive …