High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …

employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performancestandards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the … cost impact of the MW acrossrestaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours overthe …

unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase thevolume of … capital flows, because of stronger employment adjustments in comparison with acompetitive economy. We next exploit the model … to investigate how demographicasymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …

positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment …