interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases …