that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect …

How well does a simple search on-the-job model fit the eighteen years of job and wage mobility of high school graduates … for the observed levels and trends of the main job and wage mobility data. Furthermore, the estimated model indicates that …

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

incorporating matching as a way to ensure sub‐sample homogeneity. Thus, we match second‐generation immigrants to their ethnic Danish … twins on the basis of parental characteristics and informal network quality. There are big differences before matching, but … after matching, second‐generation immigrants perform as well or better than their ethnic Dane counterparts do on the labor …

We analyze the consequences of counseling provided to job seekers in a standard job search and matching model. It turns … increase steady state unemployment although counseled job seekers exit unemployment at a higher rate than the non …-counseled. Dynamic analysis shows that permanent and transitory policies can have effects of opposite sign on unemployment …

We show that equilibrium matching models imply that standard estimates of the matching function elasticities are … estimation method which, under certain assumptions, is immune from that bias. Application of our method to the estimation of a … basic version of the matching function using aggregate U.S. data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS …

We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the US over the past three decades. We propose an accounting framework … that allows us to estimate the overall amount of mismatch unemployment as well as the contribution of the frictions that … caused the mismatch. Mismatch is quantitatively important for unemployment and the cyclical behavior of mismatch unemployment …