Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers

Mobility, unemployment, vacancies, and immigrant workers (JEL J6) cover labour-market dynamics.

Scope

It includes job search and matching, unemployment, turnover and mobility, and immigration's labour-market effects.

Sub-topics

• General
• Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers
• Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility
• Turnover • Vacancies • Layoffs
• Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Unemployment Insurance • Severance Pay • Plant Closings
• Public Policy
• Other

Core questions

• What causes unemployment?
• How do workers and jobs match?
• What are the labour-market effects of immigration?

Key concepts

• Unemployment
• Job search and matching
• Labour mobility
• Vacancies
• Immigration

Frequently asked questions

What is search-and-matching theory?

A framework explaining unemployment and vacancies through the frictional process of workers and jobs finding each other.