using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …

. I apply the HMM to (1) calculate the long-run consequences of separation from stable employment, (2) study evolutions of … employment stability across different demographic groups over the past several decades, (3) compare the dynamics of labor market …

Amid total factor productivity (TFP) shocks job-to-job flows amplify the volatility of unemployment, but the aggregate … income, and unemployment. As such, our work contributes to resolving two limitations of current general equilibrium labor …-search theory: under standard calibrations models without OTJ search generate implausibly low unemployment volatility, while models …

in the wake of a large and persistent aggregate demand shock. Finally, we show that these considerations can have …

employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to …

This paper examines the determinants of Italian unemployment by estimating and utilizing a structural vector … autoregressive (VAR) model. Both long-run and short-run macroeconomic determinants of unemployment are examined; the latter are … forecasts of unemployment are produced. A number of scenarios are also constructed to highlight the effect of alternative labor …

productivity in Algeria is associated with higher unemployment than the sample average, though recent positive terms of trade … unemployment is higher in Algeria than in other countries. The results are robust to various panel econometric methods and …