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 …

In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …

be endogenous to (shocks in) employment, we use IV estimation methods. Overall, we find evidence in favour of the Oswald … employment like labour costs and productivity, the skill level of the population, and demography. Considering that ownership may … significant fall in the employment rate by about 0.3 percentage points. Our results underscore the importance of including other …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … educated. In 2009, the Employment Contract Law relaxed employment protection legislation and sought to raise income protection … would facilitate the structural transformation and reduce the long-term unemployment rate. Linking increases in unemployment …

-Planck equations for the densities of individual wealth and employment status. These equations also characterize the aggregate …

high-wage country with an imperfectly competitive labour market so that outsourcing reduces equilibrium unemployment …