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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of …distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of …drive the recession. In contrast to normal unemployment, cyclical unemployment …

ambiguity of some explanatory variables. The data basis are unemployed persons leaving the unemployment register within a given … unemployment compensation play minor roles …