. The survival analysis indicates that the flows from/to employment to/from unemployment in Latvia are determined by the …

. The survival analysis indicates that the flows from/to employment to/from unemployment in Latvia are determined by the …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

This paper develops a search and matching model of equilibrium unemployment, with on-the-job search, extended to both … large, an increase in labour market tightness increases the unemployment rate and then the ‘vacancies-unemployment …

One of the main puzzles associated with the Great Recession has been the muted increase in recorded unemployment in the … unemployment, but also means that (i) significant numbers of workers are supplying fewer hours of work than they would like and (ii …

This paper studies the consequences of creative destruction on unemployment in a frictional labor market with on …-the-job search. For a benchmark calibration, a 1% increase in growth raises the unemployment rate by 1.72 percentage points in the … unemployment through more frequent job separations, in the presence of on-the-job search, creative destruction induces a direct …

increase during 2012, though unemployment was stable. The paper also investigates the microeconomic determinants of …

this kind of model features no production and full unemployment, making them useless for any policy analysis. A comparison …