This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job …. -- unemployment insurance ; potential benefit duration ; job separation rates ; post-unemployment wages …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that …

unemployment; interpretation of unemployment problems from due to endogenous and exogenous causes; analysis of the high incidence …This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …

We explore a new approach to understanding the evolution of the unemployment rate in Australia. Specifically, we use … gross worker flows data to study the consequences of assuming that there is no unique equilibrium rate of unemployment but … rather a continuum of stochastic equilibrium rates which reflect the movement of the unemployment entry and exit rates over …

Cyclical asymmetry has been recognized as a non-linear phenomenon in recent studies examining unemployment rate time … forecasting unemployment rates in mind, it seems intuitive that models should reflect this change in structure by incorporating …. Accordingly, this paper evaluates the point forecasts from models of the monthly, aggregate Australian unemployment rate series …

empirical findings I develop a search model with heterogeneous workers and firms. The model is the first to study worker …-firm sorting in an environment with worker heterogeneity, firm productivity shocks, multi-worker firms, and search frictions …

mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational …

mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational …

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes … market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We then ask how models with search improve our understanding of these data …. Our results are mixed. Search models are useful for interpreting the behavior of some additional data series, but search …

Economists face difficulties explaining the strong cyclicality of US unemployment. This paper contributes both by … of job search with aggregate productivity shocks, where i) workers face incomplete markets, and ii) wages are determined … unemployment, and the results suggest an upper bound on how far they can go in explaining unemployment cyclicality. …