unemployment rate. I show that the connection between changes in the stock market and changes in the unemployment rate has remained … unemployment. …

distribution of firm characteristics, sorting patterns between firms and workers, and unemployment rates that can help explaining …

wealth shocks and unemployment during the Great Recession in the US. We find that many households experienced large capital …

doubles when unemployment rises from 5% to 8%. Theoretically, such countercyclicality arises because of a nonlinearity, namely … in recessions but large in expansions. Hence, government consumption reduces unemployment much more in recessions than in …

Central banks throughout the world predict inflation with new-Keynesian models where, after a shock, the unemployment …

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …