firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach … based on labor market flows. The framework shows why the Okun coefficient may be constant/time-varying and/or symmetric …/asymmetric and that the outcome lies with the behavior of the labor flows in response to growth. The encompassing framework nests the …

We analyze attendance of professional football matches in England finding that it is related to unemployment over a … very long period of time. More unemployment leads to lower attendances. Distinguishing between leagues, we find that the … unemployment. …