unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment … individual characteristics, preferences over working hours, job-search strategies, and employment histories. We find substantial …

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … prejudice is quantitatively more important than skill differences to explain wage and employment gaps. In the final section of …

transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a … neighborhood employment rate increases the probability of having a job six months after displacement by 0.9 percentage points. The …

unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing … activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment …

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … employment experience of older male workers during the past half-century. We build an equilibrium life-cycle model with labor … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in …

-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market …, employment or non-stressful jobs. Lastly, we investigate the consequences of structural labor market changes by evaluating the … impact on health, employment and inequality of changes in the distribution of job health contents. …

. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment …To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …