The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in … change. The proposed framework offers a novel explanation for the observed divergence of unemployment rates across economies … adoption. The results of the paper challenge the popular, but controversial, view that blames generous unemployment insurance …

unemployment rate, using a search and matching model. We incorporate disembodied technological progress and on-the-job search into … faster growth to reduce unemployment by decreasing the separation rate and inducing job creation. We demonstrate that … growth on unemployment. Our quantitative analysis shows that our model increases the magnitude of the negative impact of …

% increase in accepted wages after unemployment. …

how easier home financing and higher homeownership rates increase unemployment rates. To this purpose we build a model of … decline while job loss rates increase, causing the overall unemployment rate to rise. We estimate this model structurally … requirements, increase unemployment rates by 6 percent points. We also find that declining labor demand decreases homeownership …

emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we …

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

- cancy subsidy, a layoff tax and unemployment benefits. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal setting of each of … replacement rate of unemployment insurance should all rise in recessions. We find this confirmed in a calibration targeted to the …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle. …

' incentives to create jobs, increases unemployment, and lowers GDP. To quantify the effects of this novel channel, we extend the … counterfactual exercises. We find that the adverse effects of our mechanism on the economy's TFP, GDP, and unemployment are sizable. …