This paper re-examines Lilien's sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans … stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes into account dynamics, parameter heterogeneity and cross …

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

they joined the establishment from unemployment This is supportive of equal treatment. We also show that a four parameter … series properties and co-properties of real wages, output, and unemployment, in particular the asymmetric response of wages …

This paper develops a sufficient-statistic formula for the unemployment gap-the difference between the actual … unemployment rate and the efficient unemployment rate. While lowering unemployment puts more people into work, it forces firms to … post more vacancies and to devote more resources to recruiting. This unemployment-vacancy tradeoff, governed by the …

joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …

joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …

joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …

unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …

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 …