Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low-educated worker. However, unemployment also increases …

-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …

. Alternatively, it is shown here how wage stickiness may bring unemployment fluctuations into a New-Keynesian model. Using a Bayesian … the two models and both provide a good empirical fit, with the crucial difference that our model delivers unemployment … fluctuations. Thus, second-moment statistics of the US rate of unemployment are replicated reasonably well in our proposed New …