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 …

downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment …

(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary … national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade … unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses …

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of … domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …