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 …

reallocation unemployment. We document new evidence on unemployed workers’ gross occupational mobility and use it to calibrate the … unemployment and its underlying duration distribution. We develop an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic … equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In this model three different types of unemployment arise: search, rest and …

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

counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important …

performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … would facilitate the structural transformation and reduce the long-term unemployment rate. Linking increases in unemployment …

translated into increasing unemployment in these regions during the recession following the financial crisis of 2007/08. We find … that on aggregate about 1/3 of the increase in Spanish unemployment can be traced back to high household debt levels. …

to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric …

to reduce the currently high unemployment among the low-skilled dramatically. Among the high-skilled, scarcities will …