How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering … indicate that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as 14% due to the broadband internet expansion …

, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of …). Accordingly, the efficient unemployment rate is the geometric average of the unemployment and vacancy rates: u* = √uv. We compute …

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

This study documents how job seekers update perceived job-finding prospects by unemployment duration and by learning … about aggregate unemployment. We find that job seekers perceive an 18% decline in their job-finding probability for each … additional month of unemployment, but perceive a higher job-finding probability when the aggregate unemployment rate is …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …

firms are more cyclically sensitive to unemployment. Besides, the VAR impulse response analysis suggests that workers move …