congestion effect. I use monthly panel data for all local labor markets in Sweden from 1992-2011. The results suggest that … unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …

ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job …

views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects …

joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …

joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …

joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …

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 … one-third of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role …

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 … one-third of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …