This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …

This paper investigates the impact of skilled immigrants on the welfare the host natives. By employing the idea of …

to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion for the US is consistent with an unemployment rate of 4 …

or sexual discrimination …

Age, education, income discrepancy, and unemployment level are the main factors that define the portrait of the Kyr …

This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the … Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less … developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from industrialized countries. Using regression analysis it shows that …