interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

sluggish. Job creation and job destruction are negatively correlated. And the volatility of unemployment is much larger than in …

"One of the strongest trends in recent macroeconomic modeling of labor market fluctuations is to treat unemployment … Unemployment," i.e., the extent to which increased unemployment during a recession arises from an increase in the number of … unemployment spells versus an increase in their duration. After broadly reviewing the previous literature, we replicate and extend …