paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …

paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …

-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation …

, this allows the model to generate fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose magnitudes are lose …

in regions with limited labour supply as well as innovative and fast-growing firms are particularly prone to face labour …

Since the advent of Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) models, countercyclical unemployment risk has been deemed … an important amplification mechanism for business cycles shocks. Yet, the aggregate effects of such "unemployment fears … model. While unemployment fears can exert noticeable aggregate effects, we find their magnitude to depend importantly on the …

-run Phillips curve between inflation and unemployment and a trade-off between price distortions and output hysteresis that change … hysteresis effects on unemployment and output. Price level targeting or a Taylor-rule responding to the unemployment rate can …

This paper analyses how labour market heterogeneity affects unemployment, productivity and business cycle dynamics that … growth dynamics. First, as the composition of labour market skills leads to supply segmentation, the relative scarcity of … skilled workers increases the natural rate of unemployment and reduces total factor productivity with long- run effects on the …

This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … European unemployment rates observed during the seventies. The explanation given is that even if the unemployment rate would … job creation remains low making the return to a low unemployment rate impossible. The paper shows that in some cases …