activities. For instance, while an increase in unemployment benefits can raise unemployment duration it may also reduce crimes by … unemployment extended to account for decisions to participate in the labor force. We introduce random arrivals of crime … of unemployment insurance, workers' bargaining power, skill-biased technological progress and the availability of crime …

This paper examines the causes of observed increase in the duration of unemployment relative to the unemployment rate … the change in the structure of unemployment duration. In particular, we examine how much of the observed change can be … unemployment insurance and the change in union affiliation. We show that changes in the composition of the labor force and …

Shimer and Hall point out how new measurements of the job finding probability explain unemployment volatility significantly …

In this paper I argue that most comparisons of the unemployment dynamics in the United States and Europe since the war … experiences in the two continents. Growth has a big impact on unemployment in econometric estimation. I use established estimates …

role to cross-country differences in social unemployment insurance institutions that Prescott argues can be safely ignored …

wage growth expected by low wage workers, combined with the fact that their earnings are not much higher than unemployment …

Significant differences in unemployment incidence in Europe have been observed across skill groups, with the least … skilled suffering the highest and most persistent unemployment rates. To identify policies alleviating this problem, we study …