increased flow into unemployment in a recession is mainly due to reduced hirings, and hence lower job-to-job transitions, rather …

market patterns. Poor match quality among first jobs implies large fluctuations in unemployment due to a responsive job …-the-job search, generates a negative comovement between unemployment and vacancies. A significant job ladder, consistent with the … empirical wage dispersion, provides ample scope for the propagation of vacancies and unemployment …

, reservation wages, applicants per vacancy, and tenure, objects that enable it to generate the trends in unemployment flows …

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

generate the trends in unemployment flows. …

that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …

. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; occupations …