We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment …

positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a …

of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for … Fund Database (IMF). Our results provide empirical evidence that the growth rates of GDP and unemployment cause migration …

This paper develops a very simple model to explain the phenomenon of persistent unemployment even in an economy … experiencing high output growth. Unemployment will also grow at a rate identical with other factors and sectors. The result is … growth in different sectors to mitigate or reduce unemployment history becomes crucial. …