This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …

labor market frictions and worker heterogeneity provides a framework for studying the impact of trade on unemployment and …

consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …

market frictions. We characterize the distributions of employment, unemployment, wages and income within and between sectors … as a function of structural parameters. We find that greater firm heterogeneity increases unemployment, wage inequality … frictions have non-monotonic effects on aggregate unemployment and inequality through within- and between-sector components …

I investigate why workers' probability of leaving unemployment has fallen since 1900 by estimating the impact of a … long-term, but not of short-term unemployment. Estimated hazards suggest that, consistent with a job search model, pensions … affected the probability of both entering and exiting unemployment. But, pensions mainly lowered the probability of leaving …