Why might there be a long-run trade-off between growth and unemployment? In general equilibrium, the returns on the … interest. If the wage grows in line with productivity, there is a positive relation between growth and unemployment. If the … incentive to hire. There emerges a trade-off between growth and unemployment. …

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 …

be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …