frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance … volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment. …

of unemployment and vacancies to negative shocks to the aggregate productivity of labor. …

A search-theoretic general equilibrium model of frictional unemployment is shown to be consistent with some of the key … regularities of unemployment over the business cycle. In the model the return to a job moves stochastically. Agents can choose … unemployment. …

model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …

percent of GDP generates output and unemployment multipliers respectively of about 1.2 per cent (at one year) and 0 … output multiplier whereas it can produce a realistic unemployment multiplier but only under a special parameterization …. Extending the model to strengthen the complementarity in preferences, to include unemployment benefits, real wage rigidity and …