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 …

We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people ….e., unemployment is 'involuntary'). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple New Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the 'non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment'. We then …

separations, matching, and unemployment over the business cycle. Separating from employment when unemployment duration is long is … unemployment and unemployment durations. We examine wage cyclicality and employment separations over the past twenty years for …