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 … prospects interacts with aggregate conditions to drive fluctuations of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. …

mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational …

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The … worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor force …

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as … among nonemployed individuals interact with their search decisions and trigger movements into and out of the labor force …

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 … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are …We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a … measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data, monitoring is found to affect search behavior only weakly, because (i) assessments …

-sectional differences in the incidence of long-term unemployment. The negative impact of low levels of skill and education is muted by the … to the cycle, but much less to individual unemployment duration. In view of these findings, we argue that active labour …Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects …

regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search …This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …