unemployment, very low volatility of labour market tightness, and for a positively sloped Beveridge curve. These implications are …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

This paper incorporates training in the design of unemployment policies. Human capital falls upon displacement and … continuously depreciates during unemployment. While training counters the decrease in human capital, it also affects the … with varying intensity during the unemployment spell can be enforced by the social planner. The analysis provides three …

spirit of Blanchard and Summers (1988), the model can generate multiple equilibria, with a low-quits/high-unemployment … equilibrium coexisting with a high-quits/low-unemployment equilibrium. Under weak conditions, low-unemployment equilibria Pareto … dominate high-unemployment equilibria. Mobility premia improve aggregate welfare but may increase unemployment. …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

generosity of unemployment benefits will not significantly boost outflows from the unemployment state. These findings support …