approach, the unemployment rate is on average 0.8 percentage points (ppts) higher than the official unemployment rate, with a …-cycle fluctuations in the unemployment rate from job separation, job finding, and participation. Correcting for misclassification changes … unemployment fluctuations, while participation accounts for fewer. The methodology I propose can be applied to any other labor …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …

apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …

bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …

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 …

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 …