Most immigrant groups in the UK experience higher unemployment rates than otherwise similar UK born whites. Empirical … ethnic minority immigrants, and their success in exiting unemployment, compare with the UK born, using the panel element of …

. Employed job search is shown to have a substantial impact on unemployment dynamics but a negligible one on the level of … unemployment. It also plays a key role in propagating a shock to institutions or to the economy to the labour market. …

which differences in mobility explain differences in the probability of exiting unemployment between the two countries. …

individual-specific costs of seeking work abroad. We explore the effects on equilibrium unemployment in each country of changes … in union bargaining strength, the ratio of unemployment benefits to wages, and employers' willingness to hire foreign … workers. Unfavourable labour-market institutions increase unemployment abroad as well as at home. We find that no country has …

Based on a two-country model it is scrutinized how the structure of the unemployment benefit system affects the … consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover …

We quantify the degree of persistence in the unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods … benchmarked against the EU. In doing so, we will also characterize the dynamic behavior of unemployment in the CEECs during the … unit roots in unemployment as in most empirical research on this area. Given that this is potentially a rather narrow …

equation model of unemployment and real wage growth. The model is developed following a structural approach based on a priori … positive effect on real wage growth and a negative effect on unemployment, with both these effects economically and …

The paper studies the determinants of unemployment in a two-countrymodel, where real wages are the outcome of the …) will (negatively) affect unemployment in all member countries by fundamentally changing the nature of strategic … structural unemployment. …