in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a reduction in the rate of job loss for …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

home. I analyze the relationship between such house lock and the elevated levels and persistence of unemployment during the … job search in the local labor market for homeowners whose home value has declined, I focus on differences in unemployment … that enables the estimation of individual and aggregate covariate effects on completed unemployment durations in synthetic …

Statistics data on state-level unemployment rates. Couple time together is U-shaped; while fathers spend more time engaging in … enriching childcare activities without a spouse present as the unemployment rate rises. Patterns are similar for dual …

average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …

collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …

Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …