heterogeneity persists throughout the duration of their unemployment spell. Notably, a considerable proportion of unemployed workers …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

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 …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non …

In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the unemployment dynamics generated by different structural … shocks. We show that the relative contribution of the job finding and separation rates to the unemployment dynamics depends … contribution of the two transition rates to the volatility of unemployment, whereas the search shock implies a disproportionate …

models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …. While job search theory predicts a shift in individuals' search effort from local to distant labour markets, consequences …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …