provides a theory of job-to-job transitions that are associated with voluntary or involuntary mobility and with wage rises or …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

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

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

-to-job flows and labour force entries and exits. Employed job search is shown to have a substantial impact on unemployment dynamics … but a negligible one on the level of unemployment. More on-the-job search leads to lower unemployment inflow and outflow …, i.e. a more stagnant unemployment pool. With employed job search, the stock of vacancies is more cyclically sensitive …