employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …

In the United States, the aggregate vacancy-unemployment (V/U) ratio is strongly procyclical, and a large fraction of … homogeneous-agent model of equilibrium unemployment theory. I show that endogenous search and worker-side horizontal heterogeneity …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …

propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …

During the Great Recession of 2007, unemployment reached nearly 10 percent and the ratio of unemployment to open … extension in the length of time in which a claimant can collect unemployment insurance (UI) to 99 weeks, at an expense to date … process. Parameter estimates of the structural model using a sample of unemployment spells from the National Longitudinal …

In response to the 2007-09 “Great Recession,” the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …

their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive …