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 …

inequality and raises unemployment, but expected welfare gains are ensured if workers are risk neutral. And while wage inequality …

conditions. A one percentage point increase in unemployment is associated with an increase in the after-tax income poverty rate … responsive to unemployment when using regional variation. Low percentiles of both income and consumption are sensitive to …

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 …

This paper examines unemployment duration and the incidence of claims following a 36 percent increase in the maximum …

We examine the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) insures workers against unforeseen events or subsidizes …

-varying tax which is used to finance a fringe benefit. While we use data from the experience-rated unemployment insurance (UI …

We examine the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) experience rating on layoffs using high quality firm and …