This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and … unemployed. Their decisions over job-search is thus typically not optimal and hence the equilibrium unemployment rates are … changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages and net output. …

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move … expected, increasing matching effectiveness in the other region yields growing regional unemployment rates. We characterize the …, the regional unemployment rates are much lower than in the decentralized economy and nobody searches in the other region. …

that reason, a policy increasing the social capital of the disadvantaged workers can increase the unemployment rate and …

unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. The government only observed wage levels. Under a Maximin … is increasing, marginal tax rates are positive everywhere, while wages, unemployment rates and participation rates are …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

This paper aims at explaining the dynamics of labor markets in Spain, especially the high persistence of unemployment …

The aim of this article is to analyse critically the definition of involuntary unemployment offered by Lindbeck and … Snower in their insider-outsider model. Their category of involuntary unemployment will be shown to be broader than that of … unemployment. Hence, with their definitional stance, it is possible to have employed involuntary unemployed agents . The underlying …

unemployment insurance and lower levels of search intensity and output in the second setting. To decenralize these optima …-linear tax schedule and an appropriate level of unemployment benefits. According to the level of the bargaining power, taxation …

levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor markets. Redistributive taxation distorts labor … demand and wages. Compared to the laissez-faire, gross wages, unemployment and participation are lower. Average tax rates are …