-search strategies and employment histories, and identify how any differences vary over the business cycle. We find systematic …

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and … part-time work. Transitions from full-time to involuntary part-time employment dominate this dynamics, spiking up at …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of … cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution. …

emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than … comparatively higher risk of job loss. In contrast, the Hispanic-white unemployment rate gap is comparatively small and is largely … rates from employment, and has shown little improvement over the last 40 years. Furthermore, even among those who work …

The results of previous research suggest that the elasticity of employment with respect to output is not constant … almost non-existent. Using the unemployment gap as the proxy for the maturity of the business cycle phase, this paper seeks … vulnerable to jobless growth. Our specification is based on the employment version of Okun's law, and estimates are provided for …

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … unemployment dynamics is the re-employment rate. …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions …