market states, the unemployment rate, and the labor force participation rate, while using values of elasticities consistent …

unemployment over the business cycle, it implies a far too strong rise of the unemployment rate when unemployment benefits rise … of unemployment but at the same time implies a reasonable elasticity of unemployment with respect to benefits …

workers return to their previous employer after a jobless spell and experience very different unemployment and employment …

market outcomes than job switchers. Over 40% of all workers separating into unemployment regain employment at their previous … temporary layoff. Recalls are associated with much shorter unemployment duration and better wage changes. Negative duration … dependence of unemployment nearly disappears once recalls are excluded. We also find that the probability of finding a new job is …

This paper measures the effect of the ongoing extensions of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the unemployment … extensions of UI benefits contributed to an increase in the unemployment rate by 1.4 percentage points, which is about 30 percent … unemployment rate increased from 2009 to 2011; while the number of vacancies has been recovering, the unemployment rate has …

links both the cyclical fluctuations and the mean level of unemployment to the aggregate business cycle risk. The key result … of the paper is that business cycles are costly for all consumers, regardless of their wealth, yet that unemployment … fluctuations themselves are not the source of these costs. Rather fluctuations over the cycle induce higher average unemployment …

for only a small portion of the fluctuations in unemployment and vacancies (Shimer (2005a)). In this paper, the author … vintages of entrants are able to account for fluctuations in unemployment and vacancies and that, in this environment, specific …

increasing unemployment transfers is partially offset by a partner's lower unemployment and wages …