apparently ended in 1982. During the past three years, Canadian unemployment rates have been some three percentage points higher … explanations for this new unemployment gap. We first show that the demographic and industrial composition of the two countries is … Canadian unemployment relative to U.S. unemployment can not be fully attributed to output movements. We find that the gap …

This paper bridges the gap between two popular approaches to estimating the natural rate of unemployment, u*. The first … approach uses detailed labor market indicators such as labor market flows, cross-sectional data on unemployment and vacancies … estimate the natural rate of unemployment in the United States using both data on labor market flows and a forward …

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the …We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … age range, we find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than do applicants with …

This paper analyses job seekers' perceptions and their relationship to unemployment outcomes to study heterogeneity and … duration dependence in both perceived and actual job finding. Using longitudinal data from two comprehensive surveys, we … observation of beliefs and ex-post realizations, to disentangle heterogeneity and duration dependence in true job finding rates …

This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits … on the duration of unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the United States. The first … spikes in the escape rate from unemployment for nonrecipients strongly suggests that the potential duration of UI benefits …

nonnegligible recall prospects of an escape rate from unemployment that declines with spell duration is shown to almost entirely … of unemployment spell durations. A job search model that allows for recalls is shown to lead naturally to a competing … risks specification of the distribution of layoff unemployment spell durations in which recall and the taking of a new job …

This paper accounts for the observed increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate in the U … remaining increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate is concentrated among women, whose unemployment … rate has fallen sharply in the last two decades while their unemployment duration has increased. Using labor market …

unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially …

that employer screening plays an important role in generating duration dependence; employers use the unemployment spell …This paper studies the role of employer behavior in generating "negative duration dependence" -- the adverse effect of … a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results …