unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ratio. To understand the sources of these … matches, and calibrate it to match all transition rates between wage employment, unemployment and self-employment as well as … that labor market frictions affect self-employment as much as unemployment. Labor market frictions also reduce aggregate …

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …

wage and unemployment duration. We consider a model of household job search in which the outcomes of bargaining are … unemployment duration: the more the husband earns, the longer the wife searches for a job; whereas the more the wife earns, the … sooner the husband finds a job. Secondly, an increase of $100 in unemployment insurance (UI) per month lowers employment rate …

the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector autoregression approach, we show that … uncertainty shocks measured by stock market volatility have a significant impact on the U.S. unemployment rate. We then develop a …

the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector autoregression approach, we show that … uncertainty shocks measured by stock market volatility have a significant impact on the U.S. unemployment rate. We then develop a …

, particularly when households have few liquid assets. Motivated by these findings, I embed endogenous unemployment risk in a two … for aggregate shocks due to a flight-to-liquidity that occurs when unemployment risk rises. This mechanism implies that …In this paper, I show that the decline in household consumption during unemployment spells depends on both liquid and …

mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed … entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …

unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ratio. To understand the sources of these … matches, and calibrate it to match all transition rates between wage employment, unemployment and self-employment as well as … that labor market frictions affect self-employment as much as unemployment. Labor market frictions also reduce aggregate …