This paper evaluates the quantitative implications of labor-market search on economic fluctuations within a real-business-cycle (RBC) model. By incorporating labor-market search, the model improves its empirical performance in several dimensions. Specifically, it better explains the substantial fluctuations in hours compared to wages, the lower contemporaneous correlation between hours and productivity, and the positive autocorrelation in output growth at short horizons. The model replicates key business-cycle facts, such as persistent unemployment, a negatively sloped Beveridge curve, and the large cyclical movements in job availability. The paper also assesses the propagation mechanism induced by labor-market search, finding that it significantly enhances the model's ability to account for observed economic dynamics. The results suggest that labor-market search plays a quantitatively important role in propagating economic shocks.This paper evaluates the quantitative implications of labor-market search on economic fluctuations within a real-business-cycle (RBC) model. By incorporating labor-market search, the model improves its empirical performance in several dimensions. Specifically, it better explains the substantial fluctuations in hours compared to wages, the lower contemporaneous correlation between hours and productivity, and the positive autocorrelation in output growth at short horizons. The model replicates key business-cycle facts, such as persistent unemployment, a negatively sloped Beveridge curve, and the large cyclical movements in job availability. The paper also assesses the propagation mechanism induced by labor-market search, finding that it significantly enhances the model's ability to account for observed economic dynamics. The results suggest that labor-market search plays a quantitatively important role in propagating economic shocks.