In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a …

unemployment by means of internet activity data, a literature starting with the seminal article of Askitas and Zimmermann (2009a …

responsiveness of the unemployment rate to changes in macroeconomic variables. Most importantly, private information increases the … responsiveness of the unemployment rate to changes in the general (type- and effort independent) productivity level. If the changes … also affect the information structure, the responsiveness of the unemployment rate may be large, even if the changes in …

This paper investigates the border between formal employment, shadow employment, and unemployment in an equilibrium … employment is correlated with unemployment, and it is tolerated because the repression of shadow activity increases unemployment … the model. The paper suggests also that policies aimed at reducing the shadow economy are likely to increase unemployment. …

unemployment. We show that the socially efficient incentive power of the equilibrium wage contract is constrained in the absence of … unemployment benefits. We then apply the model to explain the recent increase in performance-pay contracts. Within our model, this … factors is an increase in the equilibrium unemployment rate. …

This Paper studies the border between shadow employment and unemployment. It argues that the two macroeconomic … the labour market trade-off implied by ‘shadow reducing policies’, it suggests that economies with low unemployment … perform original empirical work on the border between employment, unemployment and inactivity, and we find that Italian shadow …