states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

Demographic differences in patterns of employment variation over the business cycle are examined in this paper. Three … primary conclusions emerge. First, both participation and unemployment must be considered in any analysis of cyclical changes … in the labor market. Second, young people bear a disproportionate share of cyclical employment variation. Third, failure …

present a theoretical overview of the effects of health insurance on mobility and wage/employment determination. I critically …

either the official unemployment rate or alternative measures of labor market underutilization. Modest amounts of …

labor market frictions and worker heterogeneity provides a framework for studying the impact of trade on unemployment and …

unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …

show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values … redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment induced by the minimum wage hits the lowest surplus workers first. This …

Shimer's calibrated version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model generates unemployment fluctuates much smaller than the … has been challenged by Costain and Reiter, who say it generates unrealistically big differences in unemployment from the …