In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

We examine how technological change affects wage inequality and unemployment in a calibrated model of matching … the fact that, in the model calibrated to the US economy, both unemployment and vacancy durations are very short, i …

Existing estimates of the annual unemployment rate from 1870 to 1913 were constructed by the Board of Trade, initially … reconstruct sectoral unemployment rates based on union records and supplement this with (crude) estimates for certain other … deviation than the Board of Trade index. The wide swings in unemployment during the 1870s are confirmed but the amplitude of …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

growth and the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU). Because productivity trends evolve slowly, such …-equation model of unemployment and wage setting, that incorporates productivity effects, is estimated over the whole period allowing … labour productivity do matter, but they go only part of the way towards explaining wide swings in average unemployment across …

technology growth and institutional variables affect equilibrium wage inequality, income shares and unemployment. Next, it … explain a significant part of the differential rise in unemployment and capital share and some of the differential dynamics in …