Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Zhang, Lu - 2014 - Last rev.: July 16, 2014
sharply in recessions but decline gradually in booms. The frequency, severity, and persistence of unemployment crises in the …A search and matching model, when calibrated to the mean and volatility of unemployment in the postwar sample, can … potentially explain the unemployment crisis in the Great Depression. The limited responses of wages from credible bargaining to …