Labour market macroeconomics

Theoretical dissertation proposal

The topic is Job Search over the Business Cycle

And please do use the following readings for references for producing the proposal

Mortensen, D. T., & Pissarides, C. A. (1994). Job creation and job destruction in the theory of

unemployment. The review of economic studies, 61(3), 397-415.

Shimer, R. (2005). The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and

vacancies. American economic review, 95(1), 25-49.

Pissarides, C. A. (2009). The unemployment volatility puzzle: Is wage stickiness the

answer?. Econometrica, 77(5), 1339-1369.

Hagedorn, M., & Manovskii, I. (2008). The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and

vacancies revisited. American Economic Review, 98(4), 1692-1706.

Haefke, C., Sonntag, M., & Van Rens, T. (2013). Wage rigidity and job creation. Journal of

monetary economics, 60(8), 887-899.

Gertler, M., Huckfeldt, C., & Trigari, A. (2020). Unemployment fluctuations, match quality, and

the wage cyclicality of new hires. The Review of Economic Studies, 87(4), 1876-1914.

Mercan, Y., Schoefer, B., & Sedlÿek, P. (2021). A Congestion Theory of Unemployment

Fluctuations (No. w28771). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Please come up with at least 5 research questions so I can make a choice or a decision with,

please for the research question, please provide in-depth thinking research question as it is the most critical part of the assignment, and it is the most important part for the assignment which is related to the topic we are doing and also related to the above labour market topic, thank you for your time.

Please find the sample dissertation proposal which is about the labour market attached and the writing standard and the depth of the research question and make sure it is up to this standard.

Thank you so much!