Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

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

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

employment gap under stagnation are primarily driven by fluctuations in underemployment instead of structural unemployment. Our … economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … demand and supply shocks are opposite to those of the standard case and result in a co-movement of unemployment and …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage …

wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …