unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

increased probability that employed workers become unemployed and with a reduction in worker flows from unemployment to …

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 …

"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while …

In the midst of sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment benefit (UB) eligibility extensions … ‘laws of economics' to warn that the extensions may be responsible for much of the current unemployment crisis. This … eligibility rules are not effectively enforced, so any income replacement must reduce work incentives and increase unemployment …

Ljungqvist and Sargent (2017) (LS) show that unemployment fluctuations can be understood in terms of a quantity they … understanding unemployment fluctuations. We show how the LS framework can be adapted to incorporate risk premia. We derive an … show how to use properties of the artificial economy to deduce how risk premia affect unemployment dynamics in the original …

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour …