perceptions of social position decline that come as a result of occupation-specifi c characteristics of previous employment. Given … the considerable heterogeneity of employment itself, the effect of previous occupation membership on subjective social … is more painful in terms of subjective social status decline? Do unemployment transition and labour market exit differ in …

This paper develops a search and matching model of equilibrium unemployment, with on-the-job search, extended to both … large, an increase in labour market tightness increases the unemployment rate and then the ‘vacancies-unemployment …