States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

We study how the countercyclicality of temporary layoffs affects aggregate unemployment fluctuations, firm entry and … exit dynamics, and macroeconomic fluctuations by building a tractable framework with equilibrium unemployment and … unemployment, and firm entry and firm survival in U.S. data, including the strong countercyclicality of temporary layoffs. We show …

partially due to relative changes in the type of jobs available at these times. Unemployment Insurance (UI) helps individuals … transition through difficult economic situations such as periods of unemployment, and underemployment. While UI provides … insurance to households by helping them “smooth consumption†during a period of unemployment, studies have found evidence of …

and efficient bargaining - to the existence of a budget constraint pending on the financing of the unemployment benefit …, implications of union having control over membership, and, hence, of unemployment insurance coverage, are also considered, as well … as of different fiscal scenarios on the form of financing the unemployment benefit bill. …

causes deficient aggregate demand and thereby unemployment in the presence of nominal wage stickiness attributable to union … wage setting. In this long-run stagnation, generous unemployment benefits reduce unemployment. Moreover, paradoxically …, unemployment declines if labor unions give more weight to nominal wage gains compared with employment increases …