This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

the leading region raise unemployment in the rest of the economy and leave regional wages unchanged, causing an increase … in aggregate unemployment. This model has some success in explaining the evolution of regional unemployment rates in … Italy during the period 1977-1998. Based on SHIW micro data on earnings and ISTAT data on unemployment rates we find strong …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by … the late 1980s. -- Unemployment dynamics ; job finding rates ; job separation rates …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by …