of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

We examine how technological change affects wage inequality and unemployment in a calibrated model of matching … the fact that, in the model calibrated to the US economy, both unemployment and vacancy durations are very short, i …

, unemployment and capital accumulation. First, we recover the partial equilibrium over-employment phenomenon put to the fore by …

technology growth and institutional variables affect equilibrium wage inequality, income shares and unemployment. Next, it … – Continental Europe comparison: an embodied technological acceleration interacted with different labour market institutions can … explain a significant part of the differential rise in unemployment and capital share and some of the differential dynamics in …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …