The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

level of frictional unemployment as a statistical feature of a decentralized labor market. Shocks to the economy can produce … short-run equilibrium involuntary unemployment arising from unfulfilled expectations. Even after agents align their … negative shock to demand can result in higher levels of equilibrium unemployment. In this way the model exhibits a particular …

We use detailed Norwegian administrative data to identify the income loss associated with the onset of unemployment and … balance sheet components. Unemployment results in a significant, long-term decline in income. Consumption decreases by about … consumption upon unemployment, while consistently dedicating a substantial part of their disposable income to mortgage commitments …

. Consequently, entrant workers have lower job-finding rates and longer unemployment durations than the unemployed who have looked …

interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment ifthe level of labour market regulation, union density and …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

This study investigates the effect of parental unemployment on children’s school performance. We use individual level … in Swedish unemployment during the beginning of the 1990s provides an ideal setting for testing the hypothesis that … parental unemployment affects children’s school performance. Our results indicate that having an unemployed father has a …

application of mandatory lockdowns contributed to a sharp fall in production and a rise in unemployment, inducing an expansionary …