This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …

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

creation in the private sector and unemployment. We also show that long-term unemployment depends on current and past values of … short-term unemployment and that this path-dependence fades away as soon as we reach time t-3. We interpret this result as …

the model’s failure to match the observed cyclical volatility of unemployment.. Job creation in the model is influenced by … are consistent with the evidence. Therefore explanations of the unemployment volatility puzzle have to preserve the … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …

unemployment benefits can increase welfare because they limit firms’ market power by improving the workers’ outside option. …

This article develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the general … affects unemployment as follows. An increase in aggregate demand leads firms to find more customers. This reduces the idle … time of their employees and thus increases their labor demand. This in turn reduces unemployment. We combine the …