impeding labor mobility across space affect the joint allocation of labor across firms and regions. Bringing the model to …

understand job search among the unemployed and how job search is shaped by unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market …

where mobility is determined not only by idiosyncratic tastes, but also by moving costs that are origin …How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and … understanding migration decisions, focusing on the costs of migrating. We construct and then estimate a spatial equilibrium model …

workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

explore the joint determination of wages, unemployment, house prices and city size (or migration). A key role of the model is …

This paper studies how the thick market effect influences local unemployment rate fluctuations. The paper presents a … fluctuations in the local unemployment rates. Since larger cities attain the critical market size more frequently, they have … shorter unemployment cycles, lower peak unemployment rates, and lower mean unemployment rates. Our empirical tests are …

-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies in response to shocks of a plausible magnitude. In the U.S., the vacancy-unemployment … vacancy-unemployment ratio and labor productivity have nearly the same variance. I establish this claim both using analytical … small movement along a downward sloping Beveridge curve (unemployment-vacancy locus). A shock to the job destruction rate …