unemployment, including the sharp rise in U.S. long-term unemployment during the Great Recession of 2007-09. About 75% of the … forecast error variance of unemployment is accounted for by cyclical factors-real GDP changes (?Okun‘s Law?), monetary and … dispersion of industry-level stock returns, account for the remaining 25 percent. For U.S. long-term unemployment the split …

This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the … importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model … and unemployment but increases vacancies. Additionally, the model explains the average level of unemployment insurance …