According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when … unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi … unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in longterm unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

, employment, and mobility rates. Local skill remoteness captures the degree of dissimilarity between the skill profiles of the …

This paper assesses wage setting and wage dynamics in a search and matching framework where (i) workers and firms on …

Models of random search, directed search, or stock-ow matching differ substantially in the way they assume that job … behaviour of firms using the entropy balancing technique and argue that stock-flow matching models - if suitably amended by a …

consequences of job loss. We further analyze the impact of unemployment insurance and progressive taxation for labor market … dynamics and aggregate economic activity via capital, employment and labor efficiency channels. Lower unemployment benefits or …

generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We propose a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform …’s steady state unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect were nearly of equal importance. In addition, we provide …

business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital … types. We first find that, the model does a good job at matching the cyclical properties of sectoral employment and the wage …