This paper analyses how labour market heterogeneity affects unemployment, productivity and business cycle dynamics that … skilled workers increases the natural rate of unemployment and reduces total factor productivity with long- run effects on the … Beveridge curves. Skill-specific labour market heterogeneity leads to a attening of the Phillips curve as wages and unemployment …

ratio and the relatively generous unemployment benefit system. …

unemployment. The results suggest that the elasticity is indeed negative, i.e. that real wages are lower in local labour markets … with higher unemployment. The size of the elasticity for the euro area is similar to that found in previous studies for a … number of countries, including the United States. Furthermore, there is some variation in the unemployment elasticity by …

Using new quarterly narrative evidence, this paper examines the macroeconomic impact of reforms of unemployment …

lower levels of liquid wealth. This supports the notion that the persistence of the unemployment shock is an important …

the probabilities of worker flows across employment and unemployment in euro area countries during the period 2000-2015 in …

This paper studies the dynamics of unemployment (u) and its natural rate (u*), with u* measured by real-time estimates …

muted. At the same time, it has been argued that the short-term unemployment gap has a more prominent role in determining …