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 … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

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 …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies … probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. …

unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor …