employment and the employment rates across age, gender and skill levels. To this effect, we use a sample of repeated cross …

not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …

unemployment over the last three decades. We find that while macroeconomic and demographic shocks and changing labor market … important factor explaining the shift in US relative unemployment. Our finding of the central importance of these interactions … relative unemployment has fallen in recent years in part because its more flexible labor market institutions allow shocks to …

The gender unemployment gap, the difference between female and male unemployment rates, was positive until the early … for most of the closing of the gender unemployment gap. Evidence from nineteen OECD countries is consistent with this … finding. We show that gender differences in industry composition are the main source of the cyclicality of the unemployment …

unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …