models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks … benefits and product market deregulation stand out as the most prominent policy levers for unemployment reduction. All other …

spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …

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 …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …