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 … prospects interacts with aggregate conditions to drive fluctuations of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution …

outcomes tend to be more favourable to unions when the national unemployment rate is lower …

Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid … Proportional Hazard specification can be too restrictive, leading to an overstatement of the extent of true negative duration … dependence. We conclude that negative duration dependence is largely spurious. We also decompose the time variation of the hazard …

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …

The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that … on liquidity are hit disproportionally hard. This may explain why the unemployment rate in the US during the Great …

their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive …

In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a … on unemployment: positive shocks reduce unemployment less than negative shocks increase it. For the observed process of …