dynamics in the tradition of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994). Our estimates discern 5 distinct types. Most unemployment comes … from just two of those types. Low employment types frequently circle among unemployment, short-term jobs, and being out of … the labor market. Short-term jobs play a role in the job-finding process related to the role of unemployment. These are …

signals. The University of Michigan Social Media Job Loss Index tracks initial claims for unemployment insurance at medium and …

New data compel a new view of events in the labor market during a recession. Unemployment rises almost entirely because … finding from new data is that a large fraction of workers departing jobs move to new jobs without intervening unemployment. I …

This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of variations in the nt.imber and distribution of … people becoming unemployed and inindividual probabilities of leaving unemployment. Contrary to the emphasis on exit … the size and distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of the unemployment rate. Instead of …

on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 … employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger firms, to set up a natural experiment research design. We find … that the increase in dismissal costs decreased accessions and separations for workers in small relative to big firms …

Despite stringent dismissal restrictions in most European countries, rates of job creation and destruction are … America, European dismissal restrictions are essential to a proper interpretation of both similar patterns in job turnover and … marked differences in unemployment flows …