-skilled labor, this form of globalization can induce labor market effects similar to those caused by skill-biased technical change …

In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM …, productivity and unemployment which is interpreted as a wage setting relation. From a Subset VECM we identify meaningful structural … shocks and assess their importance for unemployment by impulse response analysis and forecast error variance decompositions …

The estimates of the structural parameters of a job separations model derived from the theory of on-the-job search are … dispersion across employers exists in the sense that different employers offer different wages to the same worker, the theory … implies that a firms separations outflow is the sum of an exogenous flow to unemployment and a job-to-job flow that decreases …

This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of …/cointegration techniques which allow for the possibility that unemployment is highly persistent. In line with other studies, we find that all … equilibrium model with highly persistent shocks might be adequate to account for the observed behaviour of unemployment …

This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of UK unemployment. However, instead of using traditional … suggest that the UK unemployment may be explained in terms of lagged values of the real oil prices and the real interest rate …, with the order of integration of unemployment ranging between 0.50 and 1. Thus, unemployment shows the characteristics of …

proposed in this article for modelling the U.K. unemployment. This enables us a better understanding of the low … fractional integration, may be a feasible way of modelling unemployment, also showing that its order of integration is much … erroneous results. -- long memory ; unemployment ; fractional integration …

increases in unemployment. Put differently, if the competitive market wage declines, why don’t employers simply force their …

The regional distribution of unemployment rates in the Czech Republic over the transition period is shown to be … characterized by twin peaks, e.g. a high and a low unemployment equilibrium. The emergence of strong regional disparities at the … unemployment to job exits are taken into account and dynamic panel estimators are applied, the Czech matching function is shown to …