firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

Recent assessments of occupational licensing have shown varying effects of the institution on labor market outcomes …. This study revisits the relationship between occupational licensing and labor market outcomes by analyzing a new topical … sets of person-level characteristics. We exploit this larger and more detailed data set to examine the labor market …

-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low … the US economy. To answer this question we set up a two-country model with search in labor markets and featuring legal and … the labor cost of employers who, as a consequence, create more jobs per unemployed when there are more immigrants. Because …

, then firms will require more effort, lowering the value of additional labor and reducing new hiring …

This paper uses a sample of 116 recession episodes in developed and emerging market economies to compare the labor …-market recovery during financial crises with that of other recession episodes. It documents two new stylized facts. First, labor …-market recovery from financial crises is characterized by either higher unemployment ("jobless recovery") or a lower real wage …

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the … country's trade partner. Unemployment benefits can alleviate the distortions in a country's labor market in some cases but not …

labor market frictions and worker heterogeneity provides a framework for studying the impact of trade on unemployment and …

unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …