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 …

This paper examines the prospects for Australia meeting the Governments target to bring unemployment down to 5 per cent … by the year 2000. Particular attention is paid to the effect of the business cycle on unemployment. …

Entwicklungen sein. This work analyzes the effects of the German unemployment insurance system on the unemployment rate and the … individual job-seeking behavior. The duration of the unemployment benefits affects the time spend in unemployment. Another effect … is the span between available jobs and the level of the payments. At the same time, a longer duration of unemployment …

employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment …