We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over …

Unemployment Compensation, and the likely impacts of that Commission and economists' research findings on policy. Using a … effects of unemployment insurance, with the degree of recognition proportional to the strength of the consensus among …

jumps. Employment is unchanged in response to small demand shocks, but moves instantaneously to a new long-run equilibrium … listing of job vacancies, all of which change the cost of adjusting employment …

risk. Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics data linked to industry data on injuries and unemployment, we find:1) Nearly all … loss; 2) Similarly, nearly all the compensation for losses due to cyclical unemployment is compensation for increases in … duration, especially for increases in duration beyond the 26 weeks of unemployment that are usually compensated by unemployment …

This study examines the relative economic well-being of households that receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits …, as measured by consumption flows that are derived from information on households' spending in the Consumer Expenditure …

The theory of the dynamics of labor demand is based either on the costs of adjusting the level of employment or on the … costs of hiring or firing (of gross changes in employment). We write down a generalized cost of adjustment function that … - maximizing path of employment demand and the Euler equation whose parameters we estimate. Identifying the two types of costs …

-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values varies pro …-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with estimated …

labor markets, even though regulation generates lower employment and income. Empirically, we do find that individuals who …