countries and led to gender convergence in aggregate unemployment rates. In this paper we seek the sources of this recent … convergence by using Social Security records on individuals to study the determinants of unemployment ins and outs over the course … of a whole business cycle, i.e. 2000‐2013. We focus on Spain – a country hit hard by unemployment increases in downturns …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

cycle dynamics of separation and job finding rates and to quantify their contributions to overall unemployment variability …. Cyclical changes in the separation rate lead those of unemployment, while the job finding rate and unemployment move … contemporaneously. Fluctuations in the separation rate explain between 40 and 50 percent of fluctuations in unemployment, depending on …

volatility of vacancies and unemployment. This channel can be relevant if the lack of insurance is large enough so that the … earnings variance and persistence in the unemployment state that result in a large degree of self-insurance …

unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor … during recessions. -- Vacancies ; Unemployment ; Matching ; Labor demand ; Employment dynamics ; Business cycle …

-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation …

monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants’ higher rates in the unemployment …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …