and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

changed. Both marginal tax rates are of ambiguous sign. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment …

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …