This paper describes an equilibrium labour market in which an unemployment benefit system cannot raise the average … unemployment is high, but pays much lower rates in booms. By targeting unemployment compensation to recessions, when being … substantially reduces average unemployment. …

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

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

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 …

This paper considers an equilibrium model of unemployment in a labour market where all vacancies are advertised in a … newspaper. Unemployment occurs in occupations that are short on vacancies. New vacancies are created by entrepreneurial search … unique rational expectations equilibrium is shown to exist. The unemployment-vacancy dynamics are consistent with so …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …