There are large differences in the size of unemployment flows across high-income countries along with substantial within-country heterogeneity in worker mobility. This paper studies the sources of this cross-country variation in an environment with search frictions and heterogeneity in labor...

Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to aggregate employment differences across a large...

We investigate differences in quit, layoff and hiring rates in high versus low minimum wage regimes using Canadian data spanning 1979 to 2008. The data include consistent questions on job tenure and reason for job separation for the whole period. Over the same time frame, there were over 140...