discrimination influencing female occupational and industrial distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on …

because minimum wage increases unemployment, hence the marginal cost of redistribution is higher which gives a pretext for …

the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of … wage may increase unemployment. There are no discernable effects of minimum wages on the wages of workers in small-firms or …

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … significant “unexplained differences” for males that may be ascribed to “discrimination” against Asian migrants. However, the …

discrimination. This reading is supported by further data showing that the ex-inmates, on average, make increased effort to find …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment … U.S.. Furthermore, using U.S. data, we find that the discrimination of the unemployed increased over the 1980's in those …

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful’ countries in which …