The economic crisis associated with the emergence of the novel corona virus is unlike
standard recessions. Demand for workers in high contact and inflexible service occupations …

The economic crisis associated with the emergence of the novel corona virus is unlike
standard recessions. Demand for workers in high contact and inflexible service occupations …

ABSTRACT US labor markets became much less fluid in recent decades. Job reallocation
rates fell more than a quarter after 1990, and worker reallocation rates fell more than a …

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

This paper uses job seekers' elicited beliefs about job finding to disentangle the sources of
the decline in job-finding rates by duration of unemployment. We document that beliefs have …

ABSTRACT US output has expanded only slowly since the recession trough in 2009, even
though the unemployment rate has essentially returned to a pre-crisis, normal level. We use …

We propose a simple explanation for the long-run decline in the US start-up rate. It
originates from a slowdown in labor supply growth since the late 1970s, largely …

Long-term transition rates calculated from the Current Population Survey, the Survey of
Income and Program Participation, and Rutgers University's Work Trends Survey indicate …

Since 2007, the labor force participation rate has fallen from about 66 percent to about 63
percent. The sources of this decline have been widely debated among academics and …

We develop a unique survey that focuses on the job search behavior of individuals
regardless of their labor force status and field it annually starting in 2013. We use our survey …