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 …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

surrounding the effects of rule-based monetary policy on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We employ a Bayesian …

This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and … institutions, and runs it on recent data featuring dramatic shocks and controversial institutional change. Theoretical insights and … and turns of unemployment rates in Europe and elsewhere …