According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in … to high unemployment benefits. In this paper we reassess the turbulence-unemployment relationship using a matching model … Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998, 2004) are reversed, and higher turbulence leads to a reduction in unemployment. Thus, changes in …

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model … efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The …

for the unemployment rates of high and low-educated workers, for the share of mismatched workers and wage inequality both …