receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. …

previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …