In this study, we review the initial impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic on the Canadian labour market. We focus on changes in employment and …

This article studies the role of employer behavior in generating “negative duration
dependence”—the adverse effect of a longer unemployment spell—by sending fictitious …

Does the search and matching model fit aggregate US labor market data? While the model
has become an important tool of macroeconomic analysis, recent literature pointed to some …

This paper argues that the textbook search and matching model cannot generate the
observed business-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies in …

What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labor economics is built on
the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a …

This paper models the optimal search strategies of the unemployed across space to
characterize local labor markets. Our methodology allows for linkages between numerous …

This paper develops a search-and-matching model that incorporates temporary
unemployment and applies the model to study the labor market dynamics of the COVID-19 …

We explore the role of composition, duration dependence, and labor force nonparticipation
in accounting for the sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) …

In some OECD countries the male and female unemployment rates are very similar but in
others (notably the Mediterranean countries) the female unemployment rate is much higher …

This study investigates the role of the academic program in the incidence, persistence, and
economic returns to overqualification among recent Canadian post-secondary graduates …