increased flow into unemployment in a recession is mainly due to reduced hirings, and hence lower job-to-job transitions, rather …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

The U.S. economy continues to be characterized by a persistently-high rate of unemployment, with at least another three … years before attainment of the pre-recession unemployment rate.Six significant structural trends are identified and their … force”. And the detrimental effect of long-term unemployment is a structural impediment to becoming well-positioned to …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …