labor market frictions. We characterize the distributions of employment, unemployment, wages and income within and between … sectors as a function of structural parameters. We find that greater firm heterogeneity increases unemployment, wage … frictions have non-monotonic effects on aggregate unemployment and inequality through within- and between-sector components …

The recent financial crisis and subsequent recession have spurred great interest in the sources of unemployment … the model using Canadian data from 1991 to 2010. I find that, in the long run, unemployment fluctuations are mainly driven … per cent of unemployment fluctuations. I also find that inclusion of the recent financial crisis data in the estimation is …