document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … participation) and intensive margin (i.e., variable intensity) of search effort. The model attributes a major role to the production …

To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction …. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

market states, the unemployment rate, and the labor force participation rate, while using values of elasticities consistent …REVISED MARCH 2019 Using a representative-household search and matching model with endogenous labor force participation … participation flows. Our model successfully replicates salient business-cycle features of all transition rates between three labor …

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …