market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate …

European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a … factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home region rather than to go prospecting in … more dynamic areas. In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of …

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of … birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young … a high-unemployment urban area carries with it a large welfare penalty. Less stable jobs, slower skill accumulation …