This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

The flow opportunity cost of moving from unemployment to employment consists of foregone public benefits and the … is procyclical and volatile over the business cycle. The estimated cyclicality implies far less unemployment volatility …

unemployment, these lost work opportunities were costly to existing residents …

dynamics in the tradition of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994). Our estimates discern 5 distinct types. Most unemployment comes … from just two of those types. Low employment types frequently circle among unemployment, short-term jobs, and being out of … the labor market. Short-term jobs play a role in the job-finding process related to the role of unemployment. These are …

One of the strongest trends in recent macroeconomic modeling of labor market fluctuations is to treat unemployment … of Unemployment,quot; i.e., the extent to which increased unemployment during a recession arises from an increase in the … number of unemployment spells versus an increase in their duration. After broadly reviewing the previous literature, we …