analyze the effect of changes in the macro economic variables on the wage contract and the unemployment rate. We find that … private information may increase the responsiveness of the unemployment rate to changes in productivity. The incentive power … of the wage contracts is positively related to high productivity, low unemployment benefits and high search frictions. …

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …

financial sector, who helped cause the Great Recession and yet were bailed out by the government. Increases in inequality might … be tolerable at a time of growing consumption for all, but they become less acceptable when the unemployment rate has hit …

regional policy, top tax rates, inequality, housing and planning, crime, climate change and energy. …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …

likely to be in work relative to stayers. Interestingly, whereas this translates into higher unemployment for men, it … decreases women's participation with no effect on unemployment once selection is accounted for. The informality of the labour …