generate the trends in unemployment flows. …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when … unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low …

. The distribution of unemployment worker types adjusts slowly, which amplifies job creation in the short run. In the long … run, falling unemployment curtails the firms' vacancy posting. The model closely matches time-series moments from U …

unemployment rate, using a search and matching model. We incorporate disembodied technological progress and on-the-job search into … growth reduces unemployment by decreasing job separation and inducing job creation. The incorporation of on-the-job search … unemployment than the standard matching model …

We estimate life-cycle transition probabilities between employment, unemployment and inactivity for U.S. workers. We … assess the importance of each worker flow to account for participation and unemployment rates over the life-cycle. We find that … inactivity exit and entry matter, but the empirically relevant margins defy conventional wisdom. High youth unemployment is due …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …