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 …

This paper analyzes the determinants of high unemployment in South Africa by studying labor market dynamics using … on unemployment. The paper also explores the contribution of unemployment towards inequality. Reducing unemployment is … found to be important for reducing inequality - estimates suggest that a 10 percentage point reduction in unemployment …

We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … along the curve reveals its preferences over the destruction-duration mix, while its distance from the origin indicates the …

data series including inflation, actual output, unemployment and capacity utilization. The estimation results suggest that …

I use three decades of county-level data to estimate the effects of federal unemployment benefit extensions on economic … activity. To overcome the reverse causality coming from the fact that benefit extensions are a function of state unemployment … as an instrument to estimate local fiscal multipliers of unemployment benefit transfers. I find (i) that the overall …