, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle. …

, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and intrasectoral … economy-wide unemployment rate are the elasticity of substitution between inputs and the elasticity of demand for … cost of offshoring affects jobs and unemployment. We also show that the implications of a reduction in the cost of trading …

unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …

models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

- cancy subsidy, a layoff tax and unemployment benefits. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal setting of each of … replacement rate of unemployment insurance should all rise in recessions. We find this confirmed in a calibration targeted to the …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …