We develop a model where workers, anticipating the possibility of unemployment, invest in connections to access …

by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly …

We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960 …-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host … unemployment; an increase equal to one percent of GDP reduces unemployment by 0.2 percentage point in the same year. The effect is …

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 …

This paper examines the intergenerational correlation in unemployment in Norway and, by use of the sibling … unemployment. Confirming existing evidence, I find a substantial intergenerational correlation in unemployment. Approximately half … measures of parental unemployment. …

rates of unemployment during their whole prime-age work career. Building on a unique combination of micro- and macro data …

’ transition rates from unemployment to employment.Based on Norwegian register data from the 1989-2002 period, we show that this … indicator,in contrast to the aggregate rate of unemployment, correlates well with an expost-calculated GDP-based business cycle … unemployment rate, both at an aggregate and a disaggregate level, and hence improve policy makers ability to assess current labour …