which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model …

mandated unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). To illuminate the forces in these models, we study how UI … higher layoff taxes suppress frictional unemployment in less turbulent times, prevails in the models with labour market … impossible to include generous government-supplied unemployment insurance in that model without getting the unrealistic result …

Similar durations but lower flows into unemployment gave Europe lower unemployment rates than the United States until … the 1970's. But since 1980, higher durations have kept unemployment rates in Europe persistently higher than in the U.S. A … costs and more generous unemployment compensation make its unemployment rate respond to a parameter that measures a worker …

This paper uses a model with a continuum of equilibrium unemployment rates to explore the effectiveness of fiscal … situation of bilateral monopoly. Using this framework, I explain the current financial crisis as a shift to a high unemployment …

This paper develops a rational expectations model with multiple equilibrium unemployment rates where the price of … a permanent reduction in wealth and consumption and a permanent increase in the unemployment rate. My work suggests that …

unemployment rate. I show that the connection between changes in the stock market and changes in the unemployment rate has remained … unemployment. …

Central banks throughout the world predict inflation with new-Keynesian models where, after a shock, the unemployment …

To generate big responses of unemployment to productivity changes, researchers have reconfigured matching models in … introducing costly acquisition of credit, or by positing government mandated unemployment compensation and layoff costs. All of … these redesigned matching models increase responses of unemployment to movements in productivity by diminishing the …