either the official unemployment rate or alternative measures of labor market underutilization. Modest amounts of …

The gender unemployment gap, the difference between female and male unemployment rates, was positive until the early … 1980s. This gap disappeared after 1983, except during recessions, when men's unemployment rate has always exceeded women … for most of the closing of the gender unemployment gap. Evidence from nineteen OECD countries is consistent with this …

flow value of unemployment …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …