and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

construct a general equilibrium model where workers' reservation wages and the maximum punishment acceptable before workers quit … an adverse signal, and establishing conditions under which equilibrium entails lowering wages (performance contracting …, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …

unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …

substitutes for natives with similar education and age we find that they stimulated, rather than harmed, the demand and wages of …

reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our … welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of …