This paper estimates a stylized search and matching model on data for Australia covering the period 1978-2008. Using …

This paper argues that existing matching models with unemployment as an active search and nonparticipation as an … inactive search predict counterfactual results: the unemployment rate is at most two times as volatile as the … employmentpopulation ratio; only 20 percent of the actual volatility of the unemployment rate is accounted for; and the labor market …

In this paper we study the optimal monetary and fiscal policies of a general equilibrium model of unemployment and money …

stigma of unemployment. …

This paper quantitatively investigates the scope for improving welfare by making aspects of the unemployment insurance …

of human capital available to hiring companies, which drives the efficiency of matching between workers and firms and …

literature tries to decompose this intratemporal elasticity into its main components, the "Ins and Outs of Unemployment" (Shimer …

foreign capital in the urban formal sector on unemployment and social welfare crucially hinge on the relative factor …’s twin objectives of improvement in social welfare and mitigation of the urban unemployment problem. These results are … extremely crucial from the view of policymaking in an unemployment plagued, low-income developing economy. …