This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of …distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of …drive the recession. In contrast to normal unemployment, cyclical unemployment …

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

This paper challenges conventional views of unemployment. Its results suggest that failure to examine closely labor … force transitions has led to a misleading picture of unemployment and the way the labor market functions in general. There … unemployment. We find that the vast majority of those newly employed come not from unemployment but from outside the labor force …

results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances … risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …

unemployment in the event of an adverse shock. The liberalization of the disability program appears to explain both facts ….S. unemployment rate would be two-thirds of a percentage point higher at present were it not for the liberalized disability system …

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … age range, we find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than do applicants with …