featured mainly declining unemployment rates. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous skills to explore the … role of structural and cyclical policies for this performance. Calibrating unemployment benefits to approximate legislation … before and after the reforms, we find a large reduction in unemployment and its duration, with the transition concluding …

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

whether changes in matching frictions can explain the large and persistent increase in Mexican unemployment after the 2008 … unemployment rate. Hence, these results suggest that changes in matching frictions cannot explain most of the increase in … unemployment. …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …-over effects of labor market institutions ; unemployment ; international trade ; search frictions ; heterogeneous firms …

fluctuations of vacancies and unemployment in our model can replicate those observed in the US data, with labour market tightness … for the new hires and the calibration is consistent with the estimated elasticity of unemployment to unemployment benefits …

, 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. …

Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This … business-cycle related fluctuations in net migration flows and the crucial role of unemployment and vacancies in shaping …-cycle migration. In this model unemployment arises from search and matching frictions. We endogenize migration via the unemployed …