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 …

We analyse the effect of skill mismatch in a search model of equilibrium unemployment with risk-neutral agents … explain the rise in unemployment in Europe relative to the US. This result is due to the endogeneity of job destruction and … stands at odds with previous findings in the literature. We can, however, confirm the fact that unemployment benefits …

is embodied in the "professional underemployment" condition by which 4 out of 10 college graduates, by 2012, are … been a trigger for the increase in underemployment of university graduates, as an alternative to the literature that … quality contributes to professional underemployment in Peru. Using data from the National Household Survey for the period 2004 …