workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and … offer 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 …

. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

using the micro-data, this paper shows that this state of non-searching unemployment or discouragement has increased more … some of the jobless with considerable movements between the two categories of unemployment. These findings from the first … unemployment, which includes discouraged workers. In response to these labour market challenges, the government should further …

This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …

This study examines individuals’ unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals’ unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …

Diamond (1994) that an individual’s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

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. …

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