find that an increase in the unemployment rate of one percentage point decreases the real wages of job entries within given … rigidity in the Mortensen-Pissarides model in order to amplify realistic volatility of unemployment is not supported by the … unemployment. -- real wage cyclicality ; entry wages ; search and matching model …

featured mainly declining unemployment rates. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous skills to explore the … role of structural and cyclical policies for this performance. Calibrating unemployment benefits to approximate legislation … before and after the reforms, we find a large reduction in unemployment and its duration, with the transition concluding …

unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …

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 …

. 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 …