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Separations, sorting and cyclical unemployment

Mueller, Andreas I. - 2012

This paper establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. Using micro-data from the Current Population Survey for the years 1962-2011, it documents that in...

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The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2022

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …

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How Cyclical Is the User Cost of Labor?

Kudlyak, Marianna - 2024

In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of economic conditions at the time of hiring on future...

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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - 2014

We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...

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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction

Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - 2021

, 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. …

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Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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An incentive theory of matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...

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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment

Mueller, Andreas I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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The Beveridge Curve

Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

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