Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

cycle fluctuations in employment and unemployment. They argue that it is likely that wages are not adjusted as regularly as …

for only a small portion of the fluctuations in unemployment and vacancies (Shimer (2005a)). In this paper, the author … vintages of entrants are able to account for fluctuations in unemployment and vacancies and that, in this environment, specific …

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

Ljungqvist and Sargent (2017) (LS) show that unemployment fluctuations can be understood in terms of a quantity they … understanding unemployment fluctuations. We show how the LS framework can be adapted to incorporate risk premia. We derive an … show how to use properties of the artificial economy to deduce how risk premia affect unemployment dynamics in the original …

comovements between output and labor share. -- Credit and search frictions ; Labor market ; Unemployment …

unemployment across a sample of OECD countries. Using an incomplete markets variant of the fair wage real business cycle model …, increases in the gross replacement rate of public unemployment insurance are shown to increase the volatility of employment, and … which unemployment is endogenised in the model. …

It has been noted that the search and matching model cannot account for the observed unemployment fluctuations. Gertler …