This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the ?natural rate of unemployment …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … steady-state unemployment, but also slow down the transitional dynamics. We then provide an empirical illustration based on a … persistence of unemployment. …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …

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 …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …