Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

worker moral hazard only makes the "unemployment volatility puzzle" worse. However, moral hazard has potential to explain …

that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … opposite directions while a shock to the net flow from not in the labour force to unemployment drives the rates in the same … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …

the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector autoregression approach, we show that … uncertainty shocks measured by stock market volatility have a significant impact on the U.S. unemployment rate. We then develop a …

temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

of unemployment. We further find that allowing for on-the-job search markedly changes the quantitative predictions of the … DMP model regarding the impact of firing costs on unemployment and employment flows: ignoring on-the-job search leads one … to strongly underestimate the negative impact of firing costs on unemployment …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

RBC models with search unemployment and wage renegotiation generate too much wage volatility and too stable … unemployment rate. Shimer (2004) shows that it is possible to reproduce a volatility of unemployment similar to that observed in … unemployment …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle …