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

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 …

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. …

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are … effectiveness out of the region of residence has an ambiguous impact on unemployment rates. While it reduces the probability of …