Recent work has demonstrated that existing solutions of the unemployment volatility puzzle are at odds with the …. Our model reproduces the observed fluctuations in unemployment because hiring a worker is a risky investment with long … therefore greatly declines, leading to a large decrease in job vacancies and an increase in unemployment of the same magnitude …

This paper presents two key facts which call into question the value of unemployment rates as barometers of labor … market tightness. First, while both unemployment rates and unsatisfied labor demand proxies perform reasonably well on their … pairing the relevant unemployment rate and unsatisfied demand proxies. The paper also provides results which indicate that …

We use job vacancy data collected in real time by Burning Glass Technologies, as well as unemployment insurance (UI …

establishments; b) the amplitude and propagation of cyclical fluctuations in flows between employment and unemployment; c) the … negative comovement of unemployment and vacancies in the form of the Beveridge curve; and d) the dynamics of the distribution …

Colombia's unemployment rate rose to 20% during the late 1990s from less than 8% in 1994. This paper argues that this …

unemployment rates for both groups. The paper provides some evidence that there has been a change in the composition of jobs in the …

a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results …'s unemployment spell, with the majority of this decline occurring during the first eight months. We explore how this effect varies … that employer screening plays an important role in generating duration dependence; employers use the unemployment spell …

We study the importance of financial markets for (un)employment fluctuations in a model with searching and matching …