I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …

unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which succeeds at generating … countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …

Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate … procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP. We embed endogenous participation in a … variabilities but also generates strongly countercyclical unemployment rates. With some wage rigidity the model also matches …

estimates a simple model to capture the effects of technology, globalization, institutions and product demand effects on the … attenuate the polarizing impact of routinization and that differences or changes in wage-setting institutions play little role …

education groups, and the increase in unemployment at all levels of education. In contrast, in previous literature this type of … overeducation is key to understand the response of unemployment to the technology shock. …

replacement rates or initial tax rates are high, while no increase in unemployment occurs when institutions are "employment …This paper explains the divergent behavior of European an US unemployment rates using a job market matching model of … the labor market with an interaction between shocks an institutions. It shows that a reduction in TF growth rates, an …

in explaining the variability of unemployment and vacancies. If we incorporate long-term wage contracts into the model …

A generalized rise in unemployment rates for both college and high-school graduates, a widening education wage premium … considerable part of the changes but fails to produce the increase in unemployment for the educated labor force. The mismatch shock …