A flow model of the Dutch labour market is used to calculate the efects of autonomous labour demand and supply shocks on employment and unemployment. The model is centered around a matching function which allows for heterogeneous unemployment by taking explicitly account of POWS through various...

A sensitivity analysis using an empirical model of labour market dynamics shows that an increase in the pace of structural chance, which leads to an outward shift of the UV-curve, may have substantial effects on employment and unemployment especially when the initial pace of structural change is...