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 …

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

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In …The paper analyzes the labor market effects of globalization when foreign market entry is costly and risky. With … this situation, government unemployment benefits reduce the wages that exporting firm’s need to pay workers as risk …

the capital intensive export sectors. The overreactions cause unemployment, sluggish growth, a current account surplus and …

the wages for skilled and unskilled workers, leading to involuntary unemployment of unskilled workers in equilibrium … by lower wage differentials as well as higher unemployment. Allowing for endogenous skill formation in both countries …, the effects of a globalization shock – modelled as the entry of newly industrializing countries into the trading world …