establishments; b) the amplitude and propagation of cyclical fluctuations in flows between employment and unemployment; c) the … negative comovement of unemployment and vacancies in the form of the Beveridge curve; and d) the dynamics of the distribution …

We use job vacancy data collected in real time by Burning Glass Technologies, as well as unemployment insurance (UI …

We study the importance of financial markets for (un)employment fluctuations in a model with searching and matching …

a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results …'s unemployment spell, with the majority of this decline occurring during the first eight months. We explore how this effect varies … that employer screening plays an important role in generating duration dependence; employers use the unemployment spell …

Colombia's unemployment rate rose to 20% during the late 1990s from less than 8% in 1994. This paper argues that this …

unemployment rates for both groups. The paper provides some evidence that there has been a change in the composition of jobs in the …

This paper presents two key facts which call into question the value of unemployment rates as barometers of labor … market tightness. First, while both unemployment rates and unsatisfied labor demand proxies perform reasonably well on their … pairing the relevant unemployment rate and unsatisfied demand proxies. The paper also provides results which indicate that …