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 …

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 …

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in … receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

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 …

educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers search for jobs … unemployment. A higher audit rate has an ambiguous impact on unemployment, and may actually increase the size of the underground …