Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment. …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment … unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the private and public sectors, and on the distributions of wages in the …

significantly contribute to the rise in unemployment during the Great Recession. I build a general equilibrium model that uses … significantly contribute to aggregate unemployment fluctuations. …

workers’ outside options. We document the negative selection into self-employment when workers enter from unemployment, and … contract out of unemployment. These facts call for a revision of active labor market policies in place …

In a New Keynesian DSGE model with labor market frictions and liquidity-constrained consumers aggregate unemployment is … reacts very differently from the group of liquidity-constrained consumers implying that the unemployment rate is likely to …'s parameters, we find that the size of the fiscal (unemployment) multiplier increases with i) highly sticky prices, ii) high …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …