the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires … search on either side of the labor market. Third, we allow for multiple types of jobseekers and consider an "augmented …

’ hiring efforts, and separation. Separation accounts for about 40% of unemployment's variance, compared to 60% for vacancy …What is the relative importance of hiring and separation in driving unemployment fluctuations? This paper presents a … framework to decompose the moments of unemployment and study the respective contributions of vacancy posting, a measure of firms …

theoretical models of search, matching, and hiring in the labor market …The authors study vacancies, hires, and vacancy yields (success rate in generating hires) in the Job Openings and Labor … benefit of a vacancy, as defined by JOLTS. These findings provide useful inputs for assessing, developing, and calibrating …

suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest … disaggregation level), whereas the share of mismatch unemployment (across industries and occupations) within total unemployment …

business background (CEO governors), focusing on income growth, unemployment, private investment, and income inequality … private capital stock, and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Income …

performance, we apply a gross flow analysis based on EU-SILC longitudinal data. While in Spain increases in youth unemployment … uniformly, also to the jobfinding rates. Survival functions estimates point to prolonged unemployment duration and increasing … long term unemployment, while both these tendencies apply relatively more to the young unemployed. Proportional hazard …

employment, informal employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. We compute the contribution of each transition rate to … fluctuations in unemployment and informality rates. We identify five stylized facts: (i) Nearly 40% of the fluctuations in the … unemployment rate involves unemployment ins and outs from/to informal jobs. (ii) More than 40% of the fluctuations in informality …

The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is …

performance, we apply a gross flow analysis based on EU-SILC longitudinal data. While in Spain increases in youth unemployment … uniformly, also to the jobfinding rates. Survival functions estimates point to prolonged unemployment duration and increasing … long term unemployment, while both these tendencies apply relatively more to the young unemployed. Proportional hazard …