raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected … duration of post-unemployment job matches. On the other hand, an increase in skill mismatch in the aggregate production … function lowers the level of unemployment in an economy with high unemployment benefits. The third chapter empirically …

of labor market transitions among formality, informality, unemployment, and inactivity. The flow into informality from … unemployment is the main force accounting for persistence, which suggests that informality is a temporary shelter from joblessness …

Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in … force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for …. Nevertheless, the model explains between ~65% and ~95% of the variability in unemployment and inflation. For Italy, the rate of …

I construct a matching model to explain the labor market transition between employment, unemployment and … in the layoff rate, and this results in an increase in the unemployment-to-population ratio. Finally, firing costs make …

of vacancies, unemployment and wages. …

The dynamic general equilibrium model with hiring costs presented in this paper delivers involuntary unemployment in …

policies and to study the problem of unemployment. These notes mean to provide an exhaustive introduction to the study of the …