TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Portugal, Pedro
AU  - Rua, António
        TI  - Zooming the Ins and Outs of the U.S. Unemployment with a Wavelet Lens
        PY  - 2018/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11559
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11559
        AB  - To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment variability remains unsettled. The aim of this paper is to contribute to this debate by adopting a novel lens, wavelet analysis. We resort to wavelet analysis to unveil time- and frequency-varying features regarding the contribution of the job finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile some apparently contradictory findings reported in previous literature. We find that the job finding rate is more influential for the overall unemployment behavior but the job separation rate also plays a critical role, especially during recessions.
        KW  - worker flows
KW  - job separation rate
KW  - job finding rate
KW  - wavelets
        ER  -