-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …' skill level. -- labor demand ; heterogeneity ; age ; skill ; wage structure ; employment ; cohort effects ; unemployment …

composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …

-state unemployment by 1.4 percentage points. …

the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …

unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and … fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the … same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for skilled workers, as compared to an equilibrium where fairness …