Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for … of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

unemployment at large firms are generally found to be more cyclical. However, this stylised fact disappears when the composition of …

temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis. …

, directly from employer to employer as well as indirectly via an unemployment spell. In addition they are more likely to change …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. -- Unemployment … ; job search ; time use ; unemployment benefits ; inequality …

50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …