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 …

same which knows more the precarious employment, the underemployment and the recurrent unemployment. Moreover, one observes …

Despite the fast growth in the Estonian economy, unemployment has remained high for extended periods of time. This … paper analyses and quantifies the mismatch between registered unemployment and vacancies and how it has contributed to … unemployment in the Estonian labour market at the (county) regional, occupational, and industrial levels for the time span 2011 …

monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants’ higher rates in the unemployment …

class of search models. Specifically, the correlation between pre‐ and post‐displacement wages is informative of frictional …

We develop a theoretical model of firm dynamics and unemployment and characterize equilibria with tenure dependent …

Unemployment insurance is usually found to show negative effects in the transition from unemployment to a new job …. However, the extent to which workers' careers might improve or deteriorate as a result of the unemployment insurance system is …

This paper develops a sufficient-statistic formula for the unemployment gap-the difference between the actual … unemployment rate and the efficient unemployment rate. While lowering unemployment puts more people into work, it forces firms to … post more vacancies and to devote more resources to recruiting. This unemployment-vacancy tradeoff, governed by the …