models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

We examine the drivers of youth unemployment in Poland and Spain, countries where youth have a marginalised labour … market position. We decompose the trends in unemployment rates in 1990-2011. We disentangle the role of prolonging job search … and the impact of dismissals. The contribution of these two factors to the changes in unemployment rates is compared …

year time horizon, are in a statistical sense close to invisible with respect to employment and unemployment stocks, and … likely any period at all, of unemployment. Our results should not be taken to mean that economic policy reform is costless to …

labor market models have a hard time generating the degree of cyclical volatility in unemployment and vacancies that is …, job destruction and unemployment. We start from the reasonable assumption that the disutility of effort (in our case the … the average unemployment rate. It is important to point out that in our paper, incorporating an incentive compatible wage …

allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …

relative importance of both explanations, using a registered data set of unemployment insurance spells between 1999 and 2008 …

determinants of search duration to explain the effect of unemployment benefits on a job seekerfs behavior. We employ administrative …-to-scale for job seekers and vacancies, rather than constant return-to-scale. We also find that generous unemployment benefits …