Essays on unemployment volatility

This thesis analyses different approaches to address the unemployment volatility puzzle. In the first two chapters, we develop two types of search frictions model with efficiency wages. The models can match observed fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies in the U.S economy. Moreover, the mod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Bingsong
Other Authors: Martin, Christopher
Published: University of Bath 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.698960