procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …

I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …

allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …

. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

We study the response of domestic unemployment rates to shocks in total factor productivity for economies with high … by developed nations in the last twenty years, substantially amplify the impact on the domestic unemployment rate of …

creation in the private sector and unemployment. We also show that long-term unemployment depends on current and past values of … short-term unemployment and that this path-dependence fades away as soon as we reach time t-3. We interpret this result as …

the model’s failure to match the observed cyclical volatility of unemployment.. Job creation in the model is influenced by … are consistent with the evidence. Therefore explanations of the unemployment volatility puzzle have to preserve the … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …

higher post-unemployment wages but not faster matches, so aggregate matching functions are unaffected by scale. …