the unemployment rate in booms and expansions, as they heavily affect the autocorrelation of aggregate consumption and the …

A search and matching model, when calibrated to the mean and volatility of unemployment in the postwar sample, can … potentially explain the unemployment crisis in the Great Depression. The limited responses of wages from credible bargaining to … labor market conditions, along with the congestion externality from matching frictions, cause the unemployment rate to rise …

sets of results for family time together. -- unemployment ; time use ; time together ; Great Recession ; nonstandard work … Statistics data on state-level unemployment rates. Couple time together is U-shaped; while fathers spend more time engaging in … enriching childcare activities without a spouse present as the unemployment rate rises. Patterns are similar for dual …

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on … ; macroeconomic volatility ; monetary policy ; firing costs ; unemployment benefits ; replacement rate …

comovement of real wages is related to a common factor that exhibits a mild correlation with the national unemployment rate. Our …

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This … paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …

This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …