J Monras - Journal of Political Economy, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
How does the US labor market absorb low-skilled immigration? In the short run, high- immigration locations see their low-skilled labor force increase, native low-skilled wages …
We revisit an old question: does industry labor reallocation affect the business cycle? Our empirical methodology exploits variation in a local labor market's exposure to industry …
This paper develops an open-economy heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model in which households differ in their income, wealth, and real and financial integration with …
This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. We document the relation between …
The impact of the pandemic on the UK labour market has been extremely heterogeneous across occupations and industries. Using novel data on job search, we document how …
A substantial fraction of workers are underemployed, ie, employed in jobs for which they are overqualified, and that fraction—the underemployment rate—is higher in recessions. To …
B Herz, T Van Rens - Journal of the European Economic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the United States over the past three and a half decades. We propose an accounting framework that allows us to estimate the …
X Qiu - University of Pennsylvania, 2022 - xinchengqiu.com
Vacancies are the key equilibrium margin in canonical theories of unemployment, describing employers' job creation. The point of this paper is that vacancies can also arise …
In this paper, I quantify the contribution of occupation-specific shocks and skills to unemployment duration and its cyclical dynamics. I quantify specific skills using microdata …