immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labour markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

reduces unemployment duration but increases incidence with an ambiguous effect on overall employment. A firing tax has the … offsets the distortions on the job destruction margin induced by unemployment compensation and employment protection policy …

technology growth and institutional variables affect equilibrium wage inequality, income shares and unemployment. Next, it … explain a significant part of the differential rise in unemployment and capital share and some of the differential dynamics in …

We develop a simple model of short- and long-term unemployment to study how labour market institutions interact with … labour market conditions and personal characteristics of the unemployed. We analyze how the decision to exit unemployment and …, taxes, unemployment insurance benefits and welfare assistance. We extend our analysis by allowing for time …

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as … fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the … unemployment not only in the short run, but in the long run as well. The reason is that, in the presence of growing exogenous …

This paper attempts to explain disparities among the unemployment experiences of different OECD countries in terms of … the `fragility' of the short-run unemployment equilibrium (the impact of labour market shocks on the short …-run unemployment rate) and the lag structure of the employment determination, wage setting, and labour force participation decisions …