previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. -- Unemployment ; Job Search ; Wage Demands ; Gender Differences …

increased flow into unemployment in a recession is mainly due to reduced hirings, and hence lower job-to-job transitions, rather …

unemployment rate, using a search and matching model. We incorporate disembodied technological progress and on-the-job search into … faster growth to reduce unemployment by decreasing the separation rate and inducing job creation. We demonstrate that … growth on unemployment. Our quantitative analysis shows that our model increases the magnitude of the negative impact of …

links both the cyclical fluctuations and the mean level of unemployment to the aggregate business cycle risk. The key result … of the paper is that business cycles are costly for all consumers, regardless of their wealth, yet that unemployment … fluctuations themselves are not the source of these costs. Rather fluctuations over the cycle induce higher average unemployment …

, 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. …

market patterns. Poor match quality among first jobs implies large fluctuations in unemployment due to a responsive job …-the-job search, generates a negative comovement between unemployment and vacancies. A significant job ladder, consistent with the … empirical wage dispersion, provides ample scope for the propagation of vacancies and unemployment …