higher post-unemployment wages but not faster matches, so aggregate matching functions are unaffected by scale. …

university graduates and considers several explanations for the gender wage gap based on the human capital theory, job mobility …

ethnic compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents’ destination countries. This … paper presents and discusses comparative evidence on the performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in these …

The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural …-city matching in particular. I reject the alternative hypothesis that mobility differences are driven by variation in the moving …

This paper assesses whether racial prejudice and labour market discrimination is counter-cyclical. This may occur if … prejudice and discrimination are partly driven by competition over scarce resources, which intensifies during periods of … economic downturn. Using British Attitudes Data spanning three decades, we find that prejudice does increase with unemployment …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … occasionally renegotiated, unless the persistence in unemployment is implausibly low. We then provide some evidence that part of …

, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …