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 …

, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage … cyclicality from incentives does not dampen unemployment dynamics: the response of unemployment to shocks is first … cyclicality from bargaining dampens unemployment dynamics through the standard mechanism. Third, our calibrated model suggests 46 …

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

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …

into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops increased entrepreneurship. We find that, when compared to census tracts that …

underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship … literature and recent developments in theory and measurement of discrimination …