This study documents how job seekers update perceived job-finding prospects by unemployment duration and by learning … about aggregate unemployment. We find that job seekers perceive an 18% decline in their job-finding probability for each … additional month of unemployment, but perceive a higher job-finding probability when the aggregate unemployment rate is …

Unemployment arises from frictions in the matching of job-seekers and employers. The level of resources that employers … devote to evaluating applicants for jobs is a key factor in the magnitude of the frictions. Unemployment will be low if …-selection by job-seekers, so that they apply mainly for jobs where they are qualified, friction and thus unemployment will be low …

-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies in response to shocks of a plausible magnitude. In the U.S., the vacancy-unemployment … vacancy-unemployment ratio and labor productivity have nearly the same variance. I establish this claim both using analytical … small movement along a downward sloping Beveridge curve (unemployment-vacancy locus). A shock to the job destruction rate …

and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …

This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of …distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of …drive the recession. In contrast to normal unemployment, cyclical unemployment …

Over the last century, unemployment, vacancy, job-finding and job-loss rates as well as the Beveridge curve have no … in which unemployment, vacancies, job-finding and job-loss rates are constant while the search technology improves over … that the quality of a firm-worker match is acceptable leading to a constant job-finding rate, unemployment, etc …

How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering … indicate that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as 14% due to the broadband internet expansion …