labor markets. Upon a neutral shock, total unemployment decrease is two-staged: firstly with a reduction in unskilled … unemployment, and then due to a sharp decline of skilled unemployment when skill substitution dominates. A higher elasticity of …-specific unemployment ; human capital investment ; idiosyncratic shock ; skill substitution ; search and matching …

unemployment, this paper theoretically investigates the importance of labor market duality on labor market volatilities. The new … insight is that duality leads to a non-linear reaction of unemployment volatility for both supply and demand shocks. A … subsequent empirical panel data analysis confirms the model predictions. Uncovering the non-linearity in unemployment volatility …

, technology shocks have more persistent effects. The job finding rate largely drives the response of unemployment, though the …

. The distribution of unemployment worker types adjusts slowly, which amplifies job creation in the short run. In the long … run, falling unemployment curtails the firms' vacancy posting. The model closely matches time-series moments from U …

This paper studies the conditional patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany. We employ a structural VAR model and …

quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A … effect of benefits on unemployment. Our analysis shows the importance of investigating the effects of policies on the …