This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

This monograph provides a relatively nontechnical summary of the prominent theories of unemployment that have emerged …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such …

The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The …

This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof … average duration of unemployment of long-term UI claimants by nine weeks. This was for UI claimants who were unemployed for at …

political spectrum. This paper examines the development of employment policy in the twentieth century by viewing the interplay … of federal, state, and local partners. The programs considered include unemployment insurance, training, youth programs …, and the employment service. Some attention is also given to governmental policy that influences the geographic mobility of …