that offshoring will push natives toward jobs that are more intensive in communication-interactive skills and away from …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …

labor markets. We find that workers age 62 to 69 are responsive to the unemployment rate and to long-run fluctuations in … the rising unemployment rate will be almost 50 percent larger than the decrease in retirement brought about by the stock …

We model unemployment allowing workers to differ by comparative advantage in market work. Workers with comparative …

unemployment to employment in routine occupations, (ii) that from labor force non-participation to routine employment, and (iii …

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market … observed age differences in unemployment which, as in the data, are due to differences in job separation rates …