the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend …This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in … components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the …

cycles. Economic Theory, 12(3):583-597]. The aim of this article is to show that financing constraints can substantially …

paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on … theory. Real wage rigidities do not seem to play much of a role. This result is in line with our employed labor market model …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

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. …

-the-job search is a key component in explaining labor market dynamics in models of equilibrium unemployment. The model predicts … fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose relative magnitudes replicate the data. A standard search and … firms?incentives to post new jobs. Labor market tightness as measured by the vacancy-unemployment ratio is as volatile as in …