This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period … movement. Little of the observed heterogeneity in the plant-level employment outcome can be explained by easily observable …. Furthermore, the role for idiosyncrasies in explaining the plant-level employment outcome becomes increasingly important in times …

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

expected magnitudes of these effects on firms’ employment dynamics? In this paper, I simulate a theoretical model featuring … simulations show quite small employment effects of typical shocks to the number of vacancies in the local labor market and very … small effects of typical shocks to the number of unemployed. The employment effects are smaller in recessions than in booms …