profits, involuntary unemployment and within-group wage inequality in a unified framework. We use this model to investigate … simultaneous increase of average profits and involuntary unemployment as well as a surge in within-group wage inequality …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …