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 …

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …

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 … reallocation unemployment. We document new evidence on unemployed workers’ gross occupational mobility and use it to calibrate the …

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 …

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework where (voluntary …) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment are endogenous. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment …

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 …